Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

My Lords, I support Amendment 1, which seeks to ensure that the Government have flexibility to in...

My Lords, somewhat to my surprise, I find my name on this amendment, so perhaps I should say a fe...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 1 in this group and to the other amendments that we have in ...

My Lords, I speak on behalf of the minorities and the moral economy of kin. For minorities who ha...

My Lords, perhaps I may pick up on some points made by the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie. I have the ...

It is very fashionable to blame the previous Government for our predicament but does the noble Lo...

I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. I disagree with the idea that leaving money, as Gladsto...

My Lords, I had not planned to speak to these amendments but I have been stung into doing so by t...

Is the noble Baroness not leaving out an important ingredient? The reason why that choice is made...

I do not want to get into a great debate about the economics of this, but are people in low-paid ...

I, too, was not intending to speak on this amendment, but I was spurred to by my noble friend Lor...

I shall clarify for the noble Lord that we made our position clear in respect of 2013-14, which i...

The noble Lord is saying that the Official Opposition do not intend to make any pledges, which is...

My Lords, although I am delighted to support these amendments, believing the Bill to be yet anoth...

I support the non-existent amendment of my noble friend Lord Bach as it is key to the changes tha...

My Lords, at the risk of repeating arguments made in earlier debates, I remind the Committee of t...

I thank the Minister for attempting to respond to some of my questions. Perhaps I may return to t...

I think that the difficulty—and I may be wrong—in terms of mental health is that the noble Barone...

I am sorry for standing up again but I want to clarify the point; otherwise we will be left with ...

Will the Minister acknowledge that there is abundant evidence that incidences of crime and mental...

My Lords, I have read The Spirit Level as well, but one of the best ways of dealing with inequali...

My Lords, I just want to clarify that I am not arguing for a splurge in spending. I am not advoca...

My Lords, we and the noble Lord will simply have to agree to differ on that. The noble Lord, Lord...

I am most grateful to my noble friend. Have we not had a spectacular example this very day of how...

My Lords, that is an extremely good point. It demonstrates that there is no simplistic relationsh...

Of course I did not imply that for a moment—and I think that the Minister knows that. However, wh...

I am extremely sorry if I misunderstood the noble Lord.

In conclusion, I repeat that the am...

My Lords, perhaps I may wind up on behalf of my noble friend, who moved Amendment 1 on my behalf....

I take the argument that the noble Lord is making about 50p down to 45p. I am puzzled therefore a...

We are addressing the policies of this Government. We can spend all our time debating what previo...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord. I am a bit puzzled because he said in answer to my noble fr...

I was talking about the last Labour Government in response to points that the noble Lord himself ...