Welfare Reform and Work Bill

My Lords, the Liberal Democrats’ approach to this Bill is based on two simple principles. First, ...

My Lords, four years ago, speaking during the passage of what became the Welfare Reform Act 2012,...

My Lords, I will pick up on some of the themes that have been raised by some of my noble friends ...

My Lords, it is my privilege to address your Lordships’ House for the first time. I beg your indu...

My Lords, what a privilege to be present today for the maiden speech of my noble friend Lord Lans...

My Lords, I will make just one, completely simple, point. If you are on ESA because of mental ill...

My Lords, the Government's pledge to halve the rate of unemployment for disabled people is very w...

My Lords, first, I must apologise for being absent from your Lordships’ House for the last 18 mon...

My Lords, it is a great honour to stand here as a Member of this House and to speak for the first...

My Lords, I first must congratulate my noble friend Lord Lupton for an outstanding maiden speech,...

My Lords, the wind-up speech on Third Reading of this Bill by the Minister of State at the Depart...

My Lords, here we go again with another round of ideologically driven cuts to welfare. I say “ide...

My Lords, this is the first time I have spoken in a welfare Bill. What caught my eye was the clau...

My Lords, in considering the implications of this Bill for our society, I invoke the judgment of ...

My Lords, I have three relevant declarations of interest. I am vice-president of the Local Govern...

My Lords, the title of this Bill is a misnomer. It will not enhance welfare in the true sense of,...

My Lords, the Government have ambitious aspirations to halve the disability employment gap, to ac...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Hollins. I hope that I wil...

My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging debate on a wide-ranging Bill, but I intend to concentrate...

My Lords, I will explore just some of the concerns about this new wave of welfare cuts. We need t...

My Lords, it is a great honour and privilege to sit in this House and to follow the noble Barones...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure and an honour to follow my noble friend Lord Polak—I am not sure...

My Lords, I shall concentrate on an area in which the Government take some pride: the self-employ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as vice-president of the Local Government Association and of Nati...

My Lords, it would be wrong to discuss the measures in this Bill without highlighting the disprop...

My Lords, there have been 27 speeches so far and I want to avoid ploughing or reploughing ground ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, confidently predicted, I shall focus mainly on the que...

My Lords, in the time available I can consider only a very few of the many issues covered in this...

My Lords, I support many of the principles underlying this Bill: the importance of personal, as w...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham, even if he ...

My Lords, it is an honour and a privilege to stand before you today for the first time as a Membe...

I congratulate my noble friend Lady Stroud, whom I have known and worked with for some time, on h...

My Lords, last week in my capacity as chair of the National Housing Federation, I hosted a briefi...

My Lords, I welcome the Government’s manifesto commitment to halve the disability employment gap....

My Lords, I declare an interest as a former chairman and current vice-president of the Local Gove...

My Lords, I will try not to detain the House for too long at this hour. I want to speak, in parti...

My Lords, it was a privilege and pleasure to hear the maiden speeches of the noble Lord, Lord Pol...

My Lords, I have listened for the past six hours to this excellent debate with its high-quality m...

My Lords, as I am the last Back-Bencher to speak in this debate, I believe that everything that h...

My Lords, it has been a long evening and we are now in injury time. I will try to dispose of my w...

My Lords, notwithstanding the fascinating and varied content of their contributions, given the ho...

My Lords, I was expecting some excellent contributions to this debate, and I was not disappointed...

How is the Minister going to account for poverty among children of working families?

The HPI measures are still there. We will have all the measures that we normally have.

The ...