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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Thursday 12 February 2009

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s):

 

Welfare Reform Bill Committee 43-55

 

Public Bill Committee


 

Welfare Reform Bill

 

Mr James Plaskitt

 

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Clause  13,  page  18,  line  40,  at end insert—

 

‘140ZD 

  Individual social fund accounts

 

(1)    

The Secretary of State may establish a system of individual social fund accounts

 

for qualifying persons.

 

(2)    

The Secretary of State may designate external providers to provide financial

 

advice to holders of individual social fund accounts.

 

(3)    

Individual social fund accounts shall be used to provide budgeting loans from the

 

social fund.

 

(4)    

An individual social fund account which meets the requirements of the Saving

 

Gateway Accounts Act 2009 may be designated as a Saving Gateway account.

 

(5)    

The Secretary of State may prescribe the conditions under which a designated

 

external provider may advance funds to the Secretary of State for the provision of

 

social fund budgeting loans.

 

(6)    

A designated external provider may make a qualifying loan to an eligible person

 

from that person’s individual social fund account.

 

(7)    

The Secretary of State may prescribe conditions under which deductions may be

 

made from an eligible person’s relevant benefits for the repayment of the amount

 

of the qualifying loan to the individual social fund account of the eligible person

 

and to recover the allowable costs of the external provider.

 

(8)    

The Secretary of State may make regulations—

 

(a)    

to establish a system of individual social fund accounts and to set out

 

criteria for qualifying persons under subsection (1),

 

(b)    

to specify criteria for the designation of external providers under

 

subsection (2),

 

(c)    

to prescribe the conditions under subsection (5), and


 
 

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(d)    

to prescribe conditions under which deductions may be made from an

 

eligible person’s relevant benefits for the repayment of the amount of the

 

qualifying loan under subsection (7).’.

 

Paul Rowen

 

67

 

Clause  23,  page  33,  line  3,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

shall specify the level of training required to meet the needs of claimants

 

with mental and/or physical disabilities,

 

(e)    

shall specify the level of training required to meet the needs of claimants

 

with caring responsibilities,

 

(f)    

shall specify the level of training required to meet the needs of claimants

 

with drug dependency and alcohol issues,

 

(g)    

shall specify the level of training required to meet the needs of claimants

 

who are lone parents with dependant children, and

 

(h)    

shall specify the level of training required to meet the needs of claimants

 

who are lone parents and have been victims of domestic violence.’.

 

Paul Rowen

 

68

 

Page  43,  line  13,  leave out Clause 40.

 

Paul Rowen

 

69

 

Page  47,  line  22,  leave out Clause 41.

 

Paul Rowen

 

70

 

Clause  29,  page  37,  line  20,  after ‘services’, insert ‘, unless such exclusion would

 

prevent P from achieving the matters set out in subsection (2)’.

 

Paul Rowen

 

71

 

Clause  28,  page  36,  line  41,  at end insert—

 

‘(1)    

When P is exercising his rights under this Part the relevant authority shall be

 

subject to a duty to cooperate with P.’.

 

Paul Rowen

 

72

 

Page  87,  line  20,  leave out Schedule 5.

 

Meg Munn

 

73

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  40,  at end insert—

 

‘(8A)    

Regulations under this section must make provision to ensure that providers—

 

(a)    

submit to the Secretary of State data showing the number of participants

 

with a disability at every state of the scheme by impairment category;

 

(b)    

are required to show how they will meet the needs of participants with

 

particular disabilities.’.


 
 

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Meg Munn

 

74

 

Clause  1,  page  3,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

For the purposes of, or in connection with, any scheme within section 17A(1) the

 

Secretary of State shall review data showing the number of participants with a

 

disability at every stage of the scheme by impairment category.’.

 

Meg Munn

 

75

 

Clause  2,  page  7,  line  5,  at end insert—

 

‘(aa)    

must be reasonable, having regard to whether the person has a learning

 

disability and the nature of that learning disability;

 

(ab)    

must be reasonable, having regard to the adequacy of the support

 

available to be provided to the person if they have a learning disability;’.

 

Meg Munn

 

76

 

Clause  8,  page  14,  line  15,  at end insert ‘; and

 

(d)    

must take into account—

 

(i)    

any misunderstanding of the requirements to participate owing to

 

the nature of a participant’s learning disability, and

 

(ii)    

the adequacy of support provided to any participant with a

 

learning disability to ensure they understood the requirements

 

placed upon them.’.

 


 
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