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House of Lords Grand Committee

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

Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. Seventeenth report on: Armed Forces Bill; Welfare Reform Bill; Scotland Bill; Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill - Government response. (Lords Minutes).
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Freud | 730 c346GC (Link to this contribution) I think we have developed a code for ““soon””, which I need not go on about again.

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 730 c343GC (Link to this contribution) I am trying to visualise in my mind what you are doing with your groups. What worries me is the olde...

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Lord McKenzie of Luton | 730 c341GC (Link to this contribution) On the impact of the taper rates, does the Minister agree that, if you have council tax benefit or i...

Viscount Ullswater | 730 c323GC (Link to this contribution) If there is a division in the Chamber while we are sitting, this Committee will adjourn as soon as t...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 730 c336-7GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to add a brief word. I hope that the Committee does not mind if I do not rise...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 730 c328-31GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood, has got us off to a really good start to our c...

Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 730 c339GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before we continue, perhaps I may explain something to noble Lords that may help our sound...

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 730 c324GC (Link to this contribution) 1: Clause 1, page 1, line 7, leave out ““universal credit”” and insert ““working age entitlement””

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 730 c324-8GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I preface my remarks in the slightly Foulkesian vein of exhibiting some displeasure, not a...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 730 c324GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is not the first time that a Grand Committee has taken place in this Room. I recall m...

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 730 c323-4GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Whip for that explanation. I had heard through what I should probably call unus...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 730 c323GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this looks like two bites at the same cherry, because I believe that this has been dealt w...

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 730 c323GC (Link to this contribution) I was hoping that I was not going to have to get up and that the Whips would immediately get up. I r...

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 730 c331-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like others, I thank the Minister and his Bill team for being so accessible and helpful; I...

Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 730 c331GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not wish to comment on the overarching universal credit and associated issues, but I ...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 730 c333-4GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, since I appear to be one of a relatively small band of Conservatives in the Room, I think ...

Lord Wigley | 730 c333GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I pick up that point, which is very relevant to the debates we will be having regarding th...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 730 c335GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall comment briefly on a couple of the speeches that have been made. The way the noble...

Earl of Listowel | 730 c334-5GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to join my thanks to those made this afternoon, and to speak briefly about th...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 730 c336GC (Link to this contribution) I am very disturbed to hear what the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, has just said about lack of cons...

Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 730 c336GC (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, my Lords, I wish to make an addition to my comments. In my eagerness to thank the noble ...

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 730 c339GC (Link to this contribution) Could the noble Lord help us a little more? Some of us, in our amendments, are relying quite heavily...

Lord Freud | 730 c339GC (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think that they will be replaced quite quickly. I cannot give the actual date or time now, bu...

Lord Freud | 730 c339GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I deal with the amendment, the stand part debate and the clause, I have to take on ...

Baroness Meacher | 730 c337-8GC (Link to this contribution) I support that strongly. If one of our Members is actually at risk, maybe the usual channels need to...

Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 730 c338GC (Link to this contribution) I should like to intervene quickly to put noble Lords’ minds at rest. On a point of information, I a...

Baroness Grey-Thompson | 730 c337GC (Link to this contribution) I was asked yesterday morning to come into this room and check for accessibility. I came in at 2.15 ...

Baroness O'Loan | 730 c337GC (Link to this contribution) I have a brief point in support of the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell. As we later consider the disab...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 730 c337GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is important that we in this Room remember that we are being observed by the world outs...

Earl of Listowel | 730 c337GC (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Committee will forgive me; I omitted to declare my interest when I spoke about the w...

Lord Freud | 730 c346GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, asked two questions. The child poverty impact that I cited from the...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 730 c346GC (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister responds to that, may I chip in? The one thing that has not been touched on—I no...

Lord De Mauley | 730 c348GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps this might be an appropriate moment for the Committee to adjourn until 2 pm on Thu...

Lord Freud | 730 c347GC (Link to this contribution) My noble friend asked for some reassurance in the area of tax credits. Under the universal credit, i...

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 730 c347-8GC (Link to this contribution) There is no need for code for ““coy””. In the last minute available to me, the one thing I want to s...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 730 c346GC (Link to this contribution) On this occasion I will accept not just realism but good will.

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 730 c346-7GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to all colleagues who have taken part in this debate. I hope it has fulfilled its purp...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 730 c346GC (Link to this contribution) What does ““soon”” mean?

Lord Freud | 730 c342-3GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, for that. I am at a slight loss at how to respond, in case...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 730 c345-6GC (Link to this contribution) I have two questions arising from what the Minister has said. The first is on the current impact ass...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 730 c344GC (Link to this contribution) I wonder if I could intervene from a sedentary position. I think all that the noble Baroness, Lady M...

Lord Freud | 730 c344GC (Link to this contribution) It is never that black and white. When you build a system in stages, the issue is how partial or com...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 730 c344GC (Link to this contribution) I will accept a commitment to be realistic.

Lord Freud | 730 c344-5GC (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my noble friend. I shall continue dealing with the questions. My noble friend ...

Lord Freud | 730 c343GC (Link to this contribution) Yes. Picking up on that point from the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, one of the most complicated areas ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 730 c343GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is clearly impressively knowledgeable around all this. He said that the systems were ...

Lord Freud | 730 c343-4GC (Link to this contribution) No. I shall explain to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, exactly how this works. We are building a syst...

Lord Freud | 730 c341-2GC (Link to this contribution) We will have a debate on this matter rather soon, but maybe not today. The only way I can respond is...

Baroness Meacher | 730 c342GC (Link to this contribution) I wanted to turn the question around another way. The Minister rightly says that there are always ri...

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 730 c340GC (Link to this contribution) Thank you.

Lord Freud | 730 c340GC (Link to this contribution) We will get a code. But even the current impact assessment shows the transformative effect of univer...

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 730 c339GC (Link to this contribution) A week? A month?

Lord Freud | 730 c339GC (Link to this contribution) ““Soon”” is closer to a week than a month.

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 730 c341GC (Link to this contribution) I reinforce my noble friend’s point. As every council tax taper will differ from district to distric...

Baroness Meacher | 730 c340GC (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Minister that that is one of the great things about the universal credit—on the ass...

Lord Freud | 730 c340-1GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness. I will leave that till a little later; a number of noble Lords have rais...

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