Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Touhig, who is an expert in his field a...

My Lords, I have listened with great interest to the debate so far, and I, like many others, have...

My Lords, my colleague the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Leicester argued that in this Bil...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill as it will restore fairness and simplicity to the process of social ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way for a moment. Would he not agree that, on the cont...

I still feel there is a culture of dependency. Obviously, we would like to get more people into w...

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Sheikh, for being a hard-working and successful e...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow a number of long-standing colleagues with whom I have campaign...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Sheikh, said it and, to a large extent, the noble Lord, Lord Wigle...

My Lords, it has been a very wide-ranging debate, and many different aspects have been developed ...

I am listening carefully to what the noble Baroness says. Surely she would not uproot families—fa...

I do not know that I agree. I arrived in this country and knew nothing about it. I had no job or ...

It is Adebowale, an old Yorkshire name meaning Adebowale.

Thank you very much. The noble Lord said that some are hit harder than others and that to be hit ...

My Lords, this Bill should really be titled the “Welfare Benefits Downrating Bill” because it wil...

My Lords, as previous speakers have emphasised, the impact of the Bill must be seen in the contex...

My Lords, my contribution to this debate considers the implications of the Bill for the nation’s ...

My Lords, speaking at this point is always something of a challenge as most things have already b...

My Lords, this has been an extraordinary debate. I hope that someone gives the proceedings to the...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in today’s debate. It is an issue about whi...

My Lords, did the Minister and his colleagues make the same consideration when they decided to ta...

Do not worry, my Lords, I am coming to that. The implications of some of the speeches we have hea...

My Lords, what I said was that I would scrutinise the tax relief available for the building up of...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness for correcting me. In that case, and in v...

My Lords, the noble Lord made the point about raising people out of tax, but in my speech I said ...

My Lords, we think it is a basic principle that people on very low incomes should not be paying i...