Welfare Reform and Work Bill

In moving Amendment 61, I shall speak also to Amendment 66 in my name. The detailed amendment com...

My Lords, before I speak to Amendment 67 I apologise to the Minister for not being here at Second...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 67 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surb...

My Lords, Amendment 64 concerns those people who are kept out of the workforce as a result of the...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 67, in support of my noble friend Lady Campbell. Given the Go...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 64A. On 25 November, the Chancellor stated that he was det...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 65. I recognise that my proposed new clause may be imperf...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly in support of Amendment 64 in the name of my noble friend Lady Pi...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 67 in the name of my noble friend Lady Campbell of Surb...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support Amendment 65 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Manzoor,...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to be able to support Amendment 67, which is crucial. At present, the ...

My Lords, before I get to Amendment 62, I will comment on the range of amendments which other nob...

My Lords, I start by addressing the amendments relating to self-employment, Amendments 61 and 66,...

The Minister is taking us through a series of reasons why he cannot give the granularity in the r...

As the noble Baroness knows perfectly well, so I do not have to tell her, a lot of these issues a...

I am not trying to put an argument for deferring universal credit, and I understand some of the d...

The whole point of our clause is that we will set out our proposals on how we intend to report on...

I thank the Minister for his response, which I will read carefully in Hansard. I thank noble Lord...

Moved by

Baroness Sherlock

62B: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I seek clarification on an issue that was raised with me by a charity called Together f...

I thank the noble Baroness for tabling the amendment and for providing that degree of clarity ove...

My Lords, before I withdraw the amendment, which I will do, can the Minister tell me how many chi...

I thought that I knew the answer to that, but I am a bit uncertain. I hope that inspiration is st...

I am grateful to the Minister for that. I am grateful also for his thoughtful reply. When he read...

I would appreciate meeting them with the noble Baroness. I really regret what I have had to say.<...

I thank the Minister for that. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Tabled by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

68: Clause 2, page 1, line 16, after “target,” ...

My Lords, before the noble Lord gets to his feet to move his amendment, I have had discussions wi...

I say to the Opposition Chief Whip that the order of consideration was designed at the request of...

My Lords, given the time, I shall endeavour to be succinct and to the point. Nevertheless, Amendm...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 69, tabled in my name, and to which I am delighted to see th...

My Lords, I support Amendment 69, to which my name is added. When I added my name, I received lot...

Before I speak to Amendment 68A, I apologise for not being able to take part at Second Reading. I...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 68. The only thing that I wanted to add—all other nob...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly in support of my noble friend Lady Nye, who has made such a g...

My Lords, in the north-east I get to see apprentices in the car industry, the subsea industry, tr...

My Lords, I will attempt to respond to various points, but again, due to the lateness of the hour...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for dealing with all those questions without hesitation, rep...