Parliamentary search - Welfare Reform Bill

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

730 c628-742

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Welfare Reform Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 75-EN also published.
Thursday, 16 June 2011
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House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Feldman of Elstree | 730 c670-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to rise for the first time in your Lordships’ House in support of this Bill...

Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 730 c658-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have a mighty task on our hands. I apologise for not staying for the marathon of this d...

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Baroness Wilkins | 730 c661-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, declare an interest as I have received DLA since its inception. Luckily, having re...

Lord Wigley | 730 c663-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope the Minister heard and took to heart the two immensely informed contributions from ...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 730 c644-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend the Minister on the clarity with which he introduced and ex...

Bishop of Leicester | 730 c642-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was Archbishop William Temple, one of Beveridge’s key associates, who first coined the ...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 730 c649-51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by saluting my noble friend Lord Freud and his colleagues, who have been determine...

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 730 c646-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much support the principle of universal credit. It was put in the ““too difficult””...

Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 730 c653-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have great admiration for the Secretary of State and his Ministers, not least for my nob...

Lord Rix | 730 c651-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is important for the Government to recognise that any reform of the welfare system and ...

Baroness Tyler of Enfield | 730 c656-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support many of the objectives of the Bill, in particular the Government’s stated aim of...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 730 c654-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like many in this House, I, too, support welfare reform. I accept that it is very difficul...

Lord German | 730 c637-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, you might expect me to take a slightly different tone about a Bill which has at its heart ...

Baroness Hollins | 730 c640-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are winners and losers in life. Usually it is those who already have most who are th...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 730 c633-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for opening the debate and I look forward, as does the rest of the Ho...

Lord Freud | 730 c628-33 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that a single Member of this Chamber could stand up and say they truly beli...

Lord Freud | 730 c628 (Link to this contribution) That the Bill be read a second time.

Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill | 730 c703-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too would like to raise an issue of grave concern to the families of adults with an auti...

Baroness Grey-Thompson | 730 c701-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand the need for reform of the welfare system, and I support a system that is mor...

Lord Boswell of Aynho | 730 c706-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the Welfare Reform Bill. I believe that it represents significant progress in so...

Baroness Flather | 730 c705-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I found this Bill very difficult to understand. I have no experience in this field, and I ...

Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 730 c698-701 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a non-executive director of Hyde Housing Association, as describe...

Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 730 c695-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will limit my remarks to the parts of the Bill relating to the proposed universal credit...

Baroness Gale | 730 c697-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will be focusing my speech on the impact that the provisions of the Bill will have on pe...

Lord Whitty | 730 c688-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the one hand, the Government must be gratified that they have received almost universal...

Lord Morris of Handsworth | 730 c690-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we can all agree that an effective welfare system must be designed to promote the basic we...

Lord Patel | 730 c691-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I come to my main points, I should like to make a brief comment on something that t...

Baroness Donaghy | 730 c693-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall concentrate on the potential impact of the Bill on self-employed people, with perh...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 730 c686-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood, in his concern that the traditional practice of reas...

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 730 c683-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Turner of Camden; her experience is al...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 730 c681-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a very complicated Bill. It is not very easy to understand since so much detail is...

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon | 730 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome this Bill and there is a sound premise in what I say. It has noble intent; it se...

Lord Bilimoria | 730 c677-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, from 1999 to 2001, I served on the New Deal Task Force of the then Department for Educatio...

Baroness Meacher | 730 c672-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Feldman of Elstree, on his very pertinent maiden speec...

Baroness Sherlock | 730 c674-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to examine the extent to which the Bill meets its objectives, particularly for fami...

Lord Low of Dalston | 730 c668-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a very important Bill. It could well be a Bill which defines the coalition every b...

Baroness Stedman-Scott | 730 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest as CEO of the employment charity Tomorrow’s People which ...

Lord Touhig | 730 c666-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will focus my remarks on Part 4 of the Bill, which will bring in a new benefit called th...

Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 730 c730-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as noble Lords on these Benches have said, the Opposition support many of the broad princi...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 730 c732-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a powerful, knowledgeable and passionate debate, as it should be, given the ...

Lord Freud | 730 c736-42 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank everybody who has spoken today. There have been some truly excellent contributions...

Lord Knight of Weymouth | 730 c720-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by paying tribute to the ambition of the Minister and his Bill. I know that the Mi...

Lord Sheikh | 730 c718-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Bill is one of the boldest attempts to repair and restructure a welfare system that h...

Lord Best | 730 c729-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my set-piece speech was going to cover a number of housing issues. To my slight surprise, ...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 730 c726-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a member of the night shift, I will inevitably cover issues already eloquently discusse...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 730 c725-6 (Link to this contribution) There is nothing left to say on this Bill. Everyone has made the most marvellous, wide-ranging state...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 730 c723-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there have been many admirable speeches tonight. They must have given the Minister much fo...

Lord Skelmersdale | 730 c712-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am rather tempted to start my speech with that part of his speech that the noble Lord, L...

Baroness King of Bow | 730 c714-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we all believe in welfare reform, making work pay and simplifying the benefits system; and...

Lord McAvoy | 730 c708-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a number of really excellent contributions from very experienced people this e...

Earl of Listowel | 730 c710-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the brief time available, I should like to address the principle of universal credit, t...

Baroness Murphy | 730 c716-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having worked so happily with the noble Baroness, Lady King of Bow, in east London I am so...

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