Welfare Reform and Work Bill

With this it will be convenient to take the Government motion to disagree with Lords amendments 8...

Lords amendments 1B, 1C and 1D place a duty on the Secretary of State to publish data annually on...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is really unhelpful, when we look at poverty, to focus on...

My hon. Friend highlights the fundamental purpose of the changes that we are making. We are focus...

I have two very quick points to make. First, no Government over the next 10 years will have the r...

The right hon. Gentleman makes my point for me and, importantly, highlights the significance of t...

My understanding from our debate on the matter last week is that the Government intend to put an ...

The hon. Lady will know from the Bill and the impact assessments the fiscal savings that will res...

The Government’s equalities watchdog has said that there is

“very little in the way of evid...

As the hon. Gentleman will be aware from his participation in the Public Bill Committee and durin...

rose—

I will give way one more time.

In the past five years—in fact, in the past six years, during which the coalition and this Govern...

I will repeat my starting premise: we are more positive and optimistic for people with health con...

I very much welcome the Minister’s ambition, which I share, to halve the employment disability ga...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. He will know this, but let me tell the House that I have...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not give way. We are pressed for time, so I want to make some progress.

As the Secre...

Will the Minister give way?

I will proceed, because we have very little time. The right hon. Gentleman will get the chance to...

I apologise at the outset for the fact that I will not take interventions, but a lot of people wa...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

If my hon. Friend will excuse me, I will not. I said that I would not give way, and I want to be ...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate once again. I know that time is very sh...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am not going to give way, simply because we are short of time.

In my view, the Work progr...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stevenage (Stephen McPartland). We use the word “h...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am sorry, but time is tight and other right hon. and hon. Members have refused to take interven...

Order. There are 18 minutes left before the debate must end. I trust that no Member will speak fo...

Playing ping-pong with the other place, or receiving a Lords message, sounds rather genteel and p...

I think that the hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) must be rather inexperienced in the p...

This is a very important debate. It is important to note that these changes relating to the provi...

I urge the Government to remember that, by their own definition, claimants receiving work-related...

When I spoke on this matter in this House a week ago, I referred to the issue of the publication ...

The proposal to cut the incomes of people on ESA WRAG by £1,500 is one of the most mean-spirited ...

I am in complete support of my right hon. Friend the Minister and entirely in disagreement with t...

There are plenty of cameras in this place, but they do not always pick up what is going on across...

The first thing that I did when I was elected to this place in 2010 was to attend a dinner in hon...

The cuts to employment and support allowance—

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. We have just heard a Government Member pray in aid my ...

Thank you. I call Mr Barry Gardiner.

The cuts to employment and support allowance will make the lives of disabled people harder, the l...