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Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

The noble Baroness made two points. The first was that the vehicles will be offered for sale to existing users rather than them

necessarily being repatriated. Will she explain to the House what research has been done by the department and by Motability to establish how many people would be in a position to afford to buy their own vehicle? What work has been done to look at the maintenance costs of those vehicles, should they purchase them?

The noble Baroness went on to describe the circumstances in which people would be able to keep the vehicles if an appeal was pending. Surely that is precisely what this amendment is seeking to do: that is, to find transitional arrangements in all those circumstances. Would it not therefore be sensible for the Government to take the amendment away and to come forward with an amendment that does all the things that it seems to me we are agreed we need to address?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
743 cc945-6 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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