Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

My Lords, Amendment 12 is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord McKenzie of Luton. This ame...

My Lords, I hope to make an even shorter contribution to this important debate. I agree that the ...

My Lords, I am pleased to support my noble friends on this important amendment, which has been mo...

My Lords, I rise with trepidation following the noble Baroness, who has immense expertise in this...

Given the Minister’s very welcome and obviously understandable sympathies and sensitivities towar...

I will come to that point in a minute because it is an interesting one about the effectiveness of...

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee. I was unable to be present for the beginning and I have o...

My Lords, perhaps I may add to my noble friend’s comments. The noble Lord perfectly accurately de...

I accept that point. On the first point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Farrington, of course I ...

Does the noble Lord accept that the Child Poverty Act was not looking at just the metrics of the ...

That is a more reflective point; it is just not exactly what the amendment before us today actual...

My Lords, this proposed new clause would require the Secretary of State to lay a report in each o...

I am sure that the Minister is about to say this, but the assurance that I was seeking was that a...

I am happy, I think, to give that assurance. I say “I think” only because I have not talked to of...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, which may be an interesting pre...

That is quite an interesting point, if the noble Baroness is prepared to expand on it on the reco...

It might be worth the noble Lord and me sitting down together with the Child Poverty Act. He migh...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds

14: The Schedule, page 4, line 9, leave o...

My Lords, the three amendments in this group have two specific aims, and both concern the treatme...

My Lords, the amendments would remove the benefits paid on behalf of children from the scope of t...

My Lords, my name is also attached to all three amendments in this group. I thank the right rever...

My Lords, these amendments, to which I have added my name, are essential to protect the basic wel...

My Lords, I want to make some very brief comments on the amendments, mainly to follow up some thi...

My Lords, we have heard yet again some very powerful and persuasive speeches and it is a very int...

My Lords, I absolutely understand and appreciate the desire of the right reverend Prelate and oth...

My Lords, two sentences ago the Minister said that one of the reasons for bringing the rate of £5...

My Lords, that was not the point I made. I was talking about aligning the uprating of the adult a...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, and not least...

Moved by

Baroness Sherlock

15: The Schedule, page 4, line 10, at end insert “with the...

My Lords, this amendment is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord McKenzie of Luton.

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My Lords, I start by making it absolutely clear that, contrary to what the noble Baroness, Lady S...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness. I accept that that must have been said on Mumsnet and...

That is a fair point. The people who were posting on the internet at that time were responding to...

My Lords, the Minister regularly makes the point that if we do not have these savings the money m...

As I have said on several occasions, these cuts are necessary because of the financial situation ...

My Lords, I do not think that anyone doubts the Minister’s goodwill, integrity or concern about t...

I would say to the noble Baroness that while she and the right reverend Prelate are willing to pu...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply and my noble friend Lady Hollis for her telling inte...

My Lords, in opposing the question that the Schedule be agreed, I do not wish to reopen the debat...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness that the payments made to people who have applied for a...

I simply want to express my support for the arguments put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady Lis...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Lister for displaying yet again her knowledge of and passi...

My Lords, the purpose of this schedule is to set out benefits, payments and tax credits to which ...

This is the third or fourth time that my noble friend has mentioned that the arrangements under S...

I was going to refer to the complaints that have been made about delays in dealing with Section 4...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Avebury, and the right reverend Prelate for their powerful...