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Welfare Reform and Work Bill

How does this fit into the annual uprating statement? The Minister has just said that the Secretary of State, who has this power, must do it once in every five-year period. There is an annual social security uprating where all these things are considered. Surely we are not going to have, at random in the middle of the year, the Government coming up with a judgment on the cap that is in isolation from the rest of the established procedures for uprating benefits.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
767 c2350 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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