Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
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House of Lords
My Lords, this Bill will ensure that, following the recent Court of Appeal judgment in the case o...
If the department was so upset and disagreed with the decision, why did it take it so long to bri...
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I will come on to explain that in a little.
The arguments that we will make before the Supr...
As I understand it, this lay in the department without any suggestion of legislation for more tha...
My Lords, obviously, it is never desirable to have emergency legislation where one can avoid it. ...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation of the Bill, his officials for our meeting yes...
My Lords, I want to address the Bill itself, but before I do that I want to make a few comments o...
Could the noble Lord help me? I remember when the Liberal Democrats were on this side of the Hous...
Yes, I will. It is perfectly obvious that the noble Lord’s party did the same thing when it was i...
In the opening stages of the noble Lord’s speech, which was very interesting, he referred to rema...
Certainly. It was col. 825, about half way down towards the bottom of the page.
On the point about paragraph 12, as a member of the Constitution Committee I raise the point that...
I fully accept that. The issue raised by paragraph 12 is why the Government rejected the other op...
My Lords, this Bill contravenes two fundamental constitutional principles. First, it is being fas...
My Lords, like others in this House and like my noble friend Lord McKenzie, I have been in the Mi...
My Lords, it is hard to think of a more unattractive, more unappealing and more unworthy Bill tha...
My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord McKenzie of Luton. The amen...
My Lords, what a sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in. I almost feel sorry for the Ministe...
The point that was being made by the SSAC about the width was that it meant that it was not neces...
I thank the Minister for explaining that, but of course it was on precisely the fact that parliam...
I am so sorry, I could not catch what the noble Lord said from a sedentary position. Let me share...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their valuable and interesting contributions. I need to registe...
Will the Minister explain how it can be fair or a question of windfall when these claimants had n...
My Lords, it was clearly laid down in the primary legislation that that was an expectation, and t...
My Lords, surely the Minister has accepted his own department’s research that up to two-thirds of...
My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness on this—the sanctions have not been well designed. We a...
My Lords, can the Minister help me on one point? I have been listening very carefully to what he ...
As noble Lords know, we are seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court to test that specific ma...
The noble Lord is repeating word for word what he said in his introductory speech. Why does he no...
I am doing my best to explain the reason why this is exceptional. I did not explain it in detail ...
I thank the Minister, who has been very kind. I have one more question for him. He says that it i...
The moment that there is a ruling—if there were to be a ruling—against the department, we would b...
I quite understand that the noble Lord has not been able to answer all the questions that were as...
I have done my best to answer them. We will have a chance to go through some of these issues agai...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in support of the amendment. I say to the Minis...