Welfare Reform and Work Bill

My Lords, throughout our debates on the Bill, we have all consistently expressed our desire to se...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for bringing forward his amendment, and I am pleased that...

My Lords, I warmly welcome Amendments 1B to 1D, and I offer my thanks to various people, at the r...

My Lords, I have been studying these figures for as long as anyone. I start by acknowledging that...

I thank the Minister for bringing forward these amendments. I was delighted to see them tabled. I...

My Lords, I, too, am grateful for the Government’s decision to publish under obligation the three...

My Lords, I welcome this change of heart from the Government, and I thank the Minister for bringi...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions and thank the right reverend Prelate the Bi...

Moved by

Lord Freud

That this House do not insist on its Amendment 8, to which the Co...

My Lords, I will also cover Motion C and we will be able to take the issue in the round rather th...

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

My Lords, I beg to move Motion B1 as an amendment to Motion B. I shall speak also to Motion C1. T...

I support the amendments of my noble friend Lord Low. I, too, am extremely disappointed that the ...

I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Low, for his leadership and commitment to this issue, an...

My Lords, perhaps I may respond briefly to the points that we have heard in the last three speech...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Low of Dalston. He...

My Lords, I rise to support briefly but most strongly the amendment to the Motion tabled by my no...

My Lords, I shall contribute briefly to this debate. As noble Lords have already said, we have ha...

My Lords, I hope that I will not be considered to be lowering the tone of this debate if I ask th...

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for meeting a number of Peers last week and listening to our...

My Lords, I would like to add a couple of broad points to this important debate on this significa...

My Lords, as others have said, we should be grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Freud, for his focus...

I start by thanking noble Lords for their contributions. Clearly, many of them feel very strongly...

My understanding is that the evidence is all about able-bodied people, not disabled people, and t...

Disability benefits was dealt with in a paper by Barr et al, published by the Journal of Epidemio...

Oh.

It is true. We will debate it elsewhere.

The noble Baroness, Lady Thomas, asked who will do...

My Lords, I thank the Minister and all noble Lords who have spoken. We have had 10 speeches in th...

Moved by

Lord Freud

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

Moved by

Lord Freud

My Lords, at Third Reading earlier this month, I informed the House that we had received represen...

My Lords, as the Minister has anticipated, we have a sense of déjà vu on this drafting. We have l...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for being merciful in his remarks. As I said at the start ...