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Notices of Amendments

given up to and including

Thursday 17 January 2013

Committee of the whole House

Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

12

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  4,  leave out ‘by 1%’.

Caroline Lucas

Hywel Williams

7

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  4,  leave out ‘1%’ and insert ‘the Retail Prices Index measure

of inflation.’.

Andrew George

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

Mr John Leech

Dan Rogerson

Mr Mark Williams

Roger Williams

Annette Brooke

Mr Adrian Sanders

Mr Mike Hancock

10

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  4,  leave out ‘1%’ and insert ‘the percentage by which the

general level of earnings is greater at the end of the period under review in that tax year

under section 150(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 than it was at the

beginning of that period’.

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Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

13

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  4,  at end insert—

‘(1A)
In the case of employment and support allowance receivable by claimants of the

support component of the allowance (who receive both personal allowance and

support components) the mandatory 1% uprating stipulated in subsection (1) shall

not apply to any components of the employment and support allowance

(including personal allowance and support components) receivable by them.’.

Caroline Lucas

20


Clause  1,  page  1,  line  22,  leave out subsection (5).

Caroline Lucas

Hywel Williams

Dr Eilidh Whiteford

8

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  19,  leave out ‘by 1%’ and insert ‘by the Retail Prices Index

measure of inflation.’.

Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

14

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  19,  leave out ‘by 1%’.

Andrew George

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

Mr John Leech

Dan Rogerson

Mr Mark Williams

Roger Williams

Annette Brooke

Mr Adrian Sanders

Mr Mike Hancock

11

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  19,  leave out ‘1%’ and insert ‘the percentage by which the

general level of earnings is greater at the end of the period under review in that tax year

under section 41 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 than it was at the beginning of that period’.

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Caroline Lucas

21


Clause  2,  page  2,  line  26,  leave out subsection (4).

Caroline Lucas

Hywel Williams

9

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  35,  at end insert—

‘Provisions under clause 1(1) and clause 2(1) may only be changed by primary

legislation.’.

Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

15

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘(3A)
This Act will not come into force until a guarantee has been introduced that

anyone who has been in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance for two years will be

offered a job suitable to their circumstances paying at least the rate of the national

minimum wage for 25 hours per week together with job-search support.’.

Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

16

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘(3B)
This Act will not come into force if, on or before 6 April 2013, the highest rate of

income tax is reduced from 50%.’.

Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

19

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  39,  at beginning insert ‘Subject to subsections (3A) and

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(3B).’.

Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

17

Schedule,  page  4,  line  7,  leave out sub-paragraph (b).

Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

18

Schedule,  page  4,  line  10,  at end insert ‘with the exception of statutory maternity

pay.’.

New Clauses

Assessment of impact on child poverty

Ed Balls

Mr Liam Byrne

Stephen Timms

Gregg McClymont

Mrs Anne McGuire

Cathy Jamieson

Rachel Reeves

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘The Secretary of State shall, in making the orders referred to in sections 1(1) and

2(1), publish and lay before Parliament a report assessing the impact of the order

on the number of children living in—

(a)
relative low income;

(b)
combined low income and material deprivation;

(c)
absolute low income;

(d)
persistent poverty;

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as defined in the Child Povery Act 2010.’.

Annual review of local housing allowance and market rents

John Healey

Hugh Bayley

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Secretary of State must undertake a review of the current relationship

between the amounts of housing welfare benefits in each local authority area and

market rents in the same area during the relevant period.

(2)
The relevant period in subsection (1) shall be each period of 12 months starting

on 1 April 2013 and ending on 31 March 2016.

(3)
A review under subsection (1) shall include an analysis of the effect of the levels

of housing welfare benefits on the amount of private sector housing which is

currently affordable by those in receipt of or entitled to such benefits.

(4)
The Secretary of State must publish a report of the evidence and conclusions of

each review undertaken under subsection (1).

(5)
As part of each review undertaken under subsection (1), the Secretary of State

shall consider amending the method used to uprate housing welfare benefits if

there is shown to be a significant divergence between rent levels in the private

rented sector and housing welfare benefits.

(6)
In this section “housing welfare benefits” means “housing benefit in the form of

the local housing allowance or (as the case may be) the housing component of

universal credit” and “significant divergence” within the meaning of subsection

(5) is to be defined in regulations.’.

Implementation of a living wage

Hywel Williams

NC3


To move the following Clause:—

‘The Secretary of State shall publish a report on the impact of provisions

contained in this Act on the implementation of a living wage within six months

of the passing of this Act.’.

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Transfer of assigned welfare expenditure to Welsh Ministers

Hywel Williams

NC4


To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Secretary of State shall publish a report within six months of the passing of

this Act on the advantages and disadvantages of transferring responsibility for

assigned expenditure on certain benefits in Wales to the Welsh Ministers.

(2)
“Assigned expenditure on certain benefits” means the amount of money paid to

residents in Wales in the financial year prior to the introduction of this Act of

those benefits listed in Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 to this Act.’.

Cumulative impact assessment

John McDonnell

Jeremy Corbyn

NC5


To move the following Clause:—

‘The Secretary of State shall, in making the orders referred to in sections 1(1) and

2(1), publish and lay before Parliament a report assessing the cumulative impact

of all the welfare benefit changes made since May 2010.’.

Review in light of consumer price index level

Andrew George

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

Mr John Leech

Dan Rogerson

Mr Mark Williams

Roger Williams

Annette Brooke

Mr Adrian Sanders

Mr Mike Hancock

NC6


To move the following Clause:—

‘If the consumer price index is above 3 per cent. during either of the tax years

2013-14 and 2014-15 the Secretary of State must, prior to the taking effect of

increases to the relevant sums for the subsequent tax year, lay before Parliament

a report on—

(a)
the consideration he has given to the impact of the CPI rate on the

material wellbeing of households in receipt of welfare benefits;

(b)
the consideration he has given to the impact of the CPI rate on

requirements under the Child Poverty Act 2010;

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(c)
the automatic stabiliser role of welfare benefits in the wider economy and

the projected impact on economic outputs for a range of options for

increases to the relevant sums; and

(d)
his conclusions and proposed actions as a consequence.’.

Reducing social security expenditure through living wages and full employment

Lisa Nandy

Teresa Pearce

Ian Mearns

NC7


To move the following Clause:—

‘The Secretary of State must, before the end of the period of 12 months beginning

with the day on which this Act is passed, publish and lay before Parliament a

report on the potential to reduce social security expenditure through measures

to—

(a)
extend living wages in both public and private sector employment;

(b)
support job creation; and

(c)
reduce underemployment and unemployment.’.

Order of the House [8 January 2013]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill:

Committal

1.
The Bill shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Proceedings in Committee, on Consideration and Third Reading

2.
Proceedings in Committee, any proceedings on Consideration and

proceedings on Third Reading shall be taken in one day in accordance with

the following provisions of this Order.

3.
Proceedings in Committee and any proceedings on Consideration shall (so

far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before

the moment of interruption on the day on which proceedings in Committee

are commenced.

4.
Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

5.
Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

proceedings in Committee, to any proceedings on Consideration or to

proceedings on Third Reading.

Other proceedings

6.
Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

Lords) may be programmed.



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