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EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Work and Pensions, are
published separately as Bill 51—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a)
of the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill are compatible with
the Convention rights.

Contents

  1. Reports

    1. 1. Full employment: reporting obligation

    2. 2. Apprenticeships reporting obligation

    3. 3. Support for troubled families: reporting obligation

  2. Social mobility

    1. 4. Workless households and educational attainment: reporting obligations

    2. 5. Social Mobility Commission

    3. 6. Other amendments to Child Poverty Act 2010

  3. Welfare benefits

    1. 7. Benefit cap

    2. 8. Review of benefit cap

    3. 9. Freeze of certain social security benefits for four tax years

    4. 10. Freeze of certain tax credit amounts for four tax years

    5. 11. Changes to child tax credit

    6. 12. Changes to child element of universal credit

    7. 13. Employment and support allowance: work-related activity component

    8. 14. Universal credit: limited capability for work element

    9. 15. Universal credit: work-related requirements

  4. Loans for mortgage interest

    1. 16. Loans for mortgage interest

    2. 17. Section 16: further provision

    3. 18. Consequential amendments

  5. Social housing rents

    1. 19. Reduction in social housing rents

    2. 20. Exceptions

    3. 21. Exemption of a registered provider of social housing

    4. 22. Enforcement

  6. Final

    1. 23. Power to make consequential provision

    2. 24. Extent

    3. 25. Commencement

    4. 26. Short title

    1. Schedule

      Meaning of “the relevant sums” and “the relevant amounts”

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