What I would certainly define as unfair is introducing a clause whose impact on the poorest 10% of people on the income scale will be 14 times harder than on the richest 10%. I hope that he has read the impact assessment as closely as I have. If he has, he will know that 1.4 million people in the lowest 10% will be affected by this measure, but only 100,000 in the top 10% will be similarly affected. That cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered fair.
Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill
Proceeding contribution from
William Bain
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 21 January 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.
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