Bill considered in Committee. Clause 1 debated and agreed to as amended. Clause 2 agreed to. New clause 1 debated and added to the Bill. Bill reported as amended. Third reading debate agreed to on division (263 to 52) and Bill passed.
Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill
Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Tuesday, 19 March 2013,
in the House of Commons,
led by Mark Hoban.
The answering
member was Stephen Timms.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
560 cc875-897
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Mark Hoban | 560 c875 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move amendment 1, page 3, line 11, at end insert—
‘() Subsection (12) does not aff...
Stephen Timms | 560 cc875-6 (Link to this contribution)
The Government have got themselves into a terrible mess. As we heard, they ignored the advice of ...
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Jim Hood | 560 c876 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I hear ringing. It has now stopped. Carry on, Mr Timms.
Stephen Timms | 560 c876 (Link to this contribution)
Is it the Government’s intention to reclaim cash? Clearly, we are in a rather different situation...
David Anderson | 560 c877 (Link to this contribution)
If the CPAG advice is correct, does my right hon. Friend have any idea by how much the £130 milli...
Stephen Timms | 560 c877 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend asks a good question, and the answer is in the impact assessment that the Governme...
Mark Hoban | 560 c877 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman has made a couple of points. In respect of payments where decisions have...
Mark Hoban | 560 c878 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Jim Hood | 560 c878 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to consider the following:
Amendment (a), in subsection (1)...
Mark Hoban | 560 cc878-9 (Link to this contribution)
The new clause provides for a report on the operation of benefit sanctions affected by the provis...
Stephen Timms | 560 cc879-880 (Link to this contribution)
I warmly welcome the new clause which, as the Minister has said, was proposed and suggested in th...
Bob Stewart | 560 c880 (Link to this contribution)
I am slightly confused. The right hon. Gentleman said that when people get sanctioned, they have ...
Stephen Timms | 560 cc881-4 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting and telling point. Why, indeed, do people not go to jobc...
Paul Goggins | 560 c884 (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms), and I sa...
Bob Stewart | 560 c885 (Link to this contribution)
I have dealt with lots of soldiers in my life, some of whom are not very literate. One thing that...
Paul Goggins | 560 cc885-6 (Link to this contribution)
Once again, the hon. Gentleman, for all his seniority in his earlier career, demonstrates great s...
Derek Twigg | 560 cc886-7 (Link to this contribution)
New clause 1 presents an opportunity. I congratulate my right hon. Friends on the Opposition Fron...
Andrew Miller | 560 c887 (Link to this contribution)
I want to begin by commenting on the remarks made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wythensh...
Bob Stewart | 560 c887 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman, who has been a friend of mine for a long time, for giving way. One pr...
Andrew Miller | 560 c888 (Link to this contribution)
If we developed this too far, Mr Hood, I would be outwith the scope of the amendment, but the hon...
Fiona Mactaggart | 560 cc888-9 (Link to this contribution)
I want to follow up on some of the issues that have been raised. I recently asked the Minister ho...
Mark Hoban | 560 c889 (Link to this contribution)
We have had a helpful debate on the review. I note the comments of the right hon. Member for East...
Mark Hoban | 560 c889 (Link to this contribution)
Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman is a sinner who has repented. I happily give way.
Paul Goggins | 560 c889 (Link to this contribution)
It was precisely some of the experience I was reflecting on that caused me to make the comment.
Mark Hoban | 560 cc889-890 (Link to this contribution)
The sinner has repented on this occasion.
Let me be clear. I want the review to proceed as ...
Liam Byrne | 560 c890 (Link to this contribution)
I look forward to the evidence of the next few days.
Mark Hoban | 560 c890 (Link to this contribution)
Given that my right hon. Friend said that he would stop the practice, we would stop it again if i...
Fiona Mactaggart | 560 c890 (Link to this contribution)
The courts said that or judges ruled it was obfuscation.
Mark Hoban | 560 cc890-1 (Link to this contribution)
Absolutely, but the hon. Lady repeated that, and by virtue of the quote I think she was supportin...
Stephen Timms | 560 c891 (Link to this contribution)
I take entirely the Minister’s point about the hardship schemes, but I wonder what he thinks has ...
Mark Hoban | 560 c891 (Link to this contribution)
The practice of the Government the right hon. Gentleman was a part of when he was a Minister in t...
Stephen Timms | 560 c891 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister is right about the hardship regime, but he is surely not trying to tell us that the ...
Mark Hoban | 560 cc891-2 (Link to this contribution)
Well, actually it is not about leaflets. It is about signposting people to food banks. The right ...
Paul Goggins | 560 c892 (Link to this contribution)
I know from other dealings with the Minister that if he says he wants something to happen urgentl...
Mark Hoban | 560 c892 (Link to this contribution)
I do not want to end up getting stuck in a laborious process of issuing interim reports when I wo...
Mark Hoban | 560 c892 (Link to this contribution)
We have plenty of time for Third Reading. I will bring my remarks to a close by encouraging the H...
Jim Hood | 560 c892 (Link to this contribution)
Mr Goggins, you did not inform the House whether you wanted to move your amendment formally, or w...
Paul Goggins | 560 c892 (Link to this contribution)
I hope that the Minister will continue to give my amendment careful consideration, but I do not w...
Mark Hoban | 560 cc892-3 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.
We have had short but helpful deba...
Stephen Timms | 560 c893 (Link to this contribution)
This Bill has been an extraordinary fiasco. It is here because the Government made basic errors i...
Eilidh Whiteford | 560 cc893-4 (Link to this contribution)
I do not intend to detain the House for long, but it is worth reiterating the point I made on Sec...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 560 c894 (Link to this contribution)
I would like to congratulate the Government on their incompetence with the Bill. I would like to ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 560 c894 (Link to this contribution)
I am listening to what the right hon. Gentleman has to say, but it sounds a little rich coming fr...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 560 cc894-5 (Link to this contribution)
Well, if that is true, this Government have learnt nothing from our experience, so it is doubly w...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 560 cc895-6 (Link to this contribution)
Yet again, the Government have clearly shown whose side they are on. Yesterday, a great deal of s...
John McDonnell | 560 cc896-7 (Link to this contribution)
I want the last words of the debate to be a thank you to two young people, because if they had no...
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