Social Security (Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance) (Waiting Days) Amendment Regulations 2014

My Lords, I too am grateful to my noble friend Lord Kirkwood for giving us a chance to talk about...

My Lords, I, too, thank and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope, on moving thi...

I thank noble Lords for their many helpful contributions to the debate. It is clear that this mea...

Perhaps I may ask the noble Lord the question raised by SSAC. Is it likely that the people who ar...

Yes; I thought that I had made that clear—that the intention is to focus on the people with longe...

I am sorry to intervene on the Minister. I was not asking about savings, because that is in the p...

I was coming on to that. The noble Baroness asked a series of questions. We do not currently have...

A number of noble Lords raised the communications issue around short-term benefit advances. We ha...

I agree that we are talking about very difficult lives here, but it is very clear from this resea...

My Lords, I would be the last person to say that the current benefits system was easy to navigate...

I may have missed it, but I do not think I did. Does the Minister have any response to the point ...

Yes, we have accepted the communications issue there and have already, on the basis of that recom...