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Welfare Reform and Work Bill

I am amazed this information was not available at the Commons stage of this Bill, given it has been discussed in Parliament for several months—certainly I think it was back in July the Second Reading took place—and to still not to know these figures surprises me enormously. While the Minister is being helpful in producing information, given that we know that 85% of the welfare cuts proposed by the Chancellor will fall on women and given we know that nearly all the “victims”—the recipients of concern in the exempted groups that we were talking about in previous amendments—are women, will he also do us a gender breakdown? He is absolutely right, as other noble Lords have also said, that it is usually the mother who is left caring for disabled children. I remember meeting vaccine-damaged children—part of the Minister’s responsibility, I think—and every parent there with a disabled child was a woman. Can I ask the Minister if he will add a gender analysis to the financial analysis of where some of these cuts fall and who the exemptions, therefore, would help to protect?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
767 c1370 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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