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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Wednesday 11 March 2009

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

259-65, 269, 271 and 293

 

Consideration of Bill


 

Welfare Reform Bill, As Amended

 

Annual report on claimants moving into work

 

Mr James Clappison

 

Mr Mark Harper

 

John Baron

 

NC6

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State shall prepare an annual report on the operation of the

 

arrangements relating to incapacity benefit claimants and employment and

 

support allowance claimants and shall give details of the number of such

 

claimants who have moved off benefit and into work.

 

(2)    

A copy of each such report shall be laid before each House of Parliament.’.

 

Claimant’s Charter and Employment Services Ombudsman

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

NC7

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Regulations under this section shall make provision for a Claimant’s Charter to

 

set out the rights and duties of claimants under the provisions of this Act.

 

(2)    

The Claimant’s Charter shall apply to all functions exercised by the Secretary of

 

State under the provisions of this Act, including those contracted out under

 

section 23 of this Act.

 

(3)    

Regulations may provide for benefit claimants to have complaints against

 

providers of employment services investigated by an employment services

 

ombudsman in accordance with a scheme approved by the Secretary of State.’.


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Work related activity: payment of additional premium

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

NC8

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

In the Social Security and Contributions Act 1992 (c. 4), section 135 is amended

 

as follows.

 

(2)    

After subsection (6) insert—

 

“(7)    

The applicable amount shall include an amount in respect of a work-

 

related activity component if the claimant undertakes work-related

 

activity as defined in section 2D(8)(c) of the Social Security

 

Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).”’.

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

38

 

Page  10,  line  20  [Clause  3],  at end insert—

 

‘(8)    

Regulations made under paragraph (c) of subsection (4) shall include any person

 

with dependant children who has claimed benefit in the previous three months

 

where he has left and remains absent from the former dwelling occupied as the

 

home through fear of violence in that dwelling or by a former member of his

 

family.’.

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

39

 

Page  10,  line  20  [Clause  3],  at end insert—

 

‘(8)    

Regulations made under paragraph (c) of subsection (4) shall include any person

 

with dependant children who has claimed benefit in the previous twelve months

 

where he has left and remains absent from the former dwelling occupied as the

 

home through fear of violence in that dwelling or by a former member of his

 

family.’.

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

40

 

Page  1,  line  3  [Clause  1],  after ‘benefit’, insert ‘pilot’.

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

41

 

Page  1,  line  4  [Clause  1],  at beginning insert ‘Pilot’.

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

42

 

Page  1,  line  8  [Clause  1],  after ‘benefit’, insert ‘pilot’.


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

43

 

Page  1,  line  9  [Clause  1],  at beginning insert ‘Pilot’.

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

44

 

Page  1,  line  13  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘designed’ and insert ‘personally tailored’.

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

45

 

Page  3,  line  12  [Clause  1],  at end insert—

 

‘(11)    

This section shall have no effect after 31 December 2013.

 

(12)    

Evaluation of these pilots shall have particular regard to—

 

(a)    

the impact on single parents,

 

(b)    

the impact on claimants identified as having health problems or

 

disabilities,

 

(c)    

the impact on claimants identified as having low skills,

 

(d)    

the impact on claimants identified as having problems with substance

 

misuse.

 

(e)    

the impact on the overall level of employment within organisations that

 

operate work for your benefit schemes.’.

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

46

 

Page  11,  line  1,  leave out Clause 4.

 

Mr Terry Rooney

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

47

 

Page  15,  line  41,  leave out Clause 11.

 

Steve Webb

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

48

 

Page  69,  line  21,  leave out Schedule 3.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

49

 

Page  4,  line  26  [Clause  2],  leave out from ‘with’ to ‘of’ in line 27 and insert

 

‘providing a person who is entitled to income support an entitlement to undertake

 

personally tailored work-related activity in accordance with regulations as a benefit.’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

50

 

Page  4,  line  31  [Clause  2],  leave out ‘imposing on’ and insert ‘entitling’.


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

51

 

Page  4  [Clause  2],  leave out lines 37 to 39 and insert ‘to access personally tailored

 

work-related activity’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

52

 

Page  5,  line  4  [Clause  2],  leave out ‘requirement’ and insert ‘entitlement’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

53

 

Page  5,  line  5  [Clause  2],  leave out ‘requirement’ and insert ‘entitlement’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

54

 

Page  5,  line  7  [Clause  2],  leave out from ‘is’ to end of line 10 and insert ‘entitled to

 

personally tailored work-related activity services can access those services and the

 

amount of activity the person may access at any time.’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

55

 

Page  5  [Clause  2],  leave out lines 11 to 30.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

56

 

Page  5,  line  39  [Clause  2],  at end insert—

 

‘(c)    

for requirements that reductions shall not be applied where they may

 

have adverse consequences for the wellbeing of children in a household

 

or may worsen the severity or extent of child poverty.’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

57

 

Page  6,  line  34  [Clause  2],  leave out from beginning to ‘may’ in line 35 and insert

 

‘An action plan must be reconsidered if the person to whom it is provided makes a request

 

on reasonable grounds for reconsideration to occur and regulations’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

58

 

Page  6  [Clause  2],  leave out line 37 and insert—

 

‘(a)    

the factors that may be taken into account in deciding reasonable

 

grounds;’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

59

 

Page  6,  line  45  [Clause  2],  leave out from beginning to end of line 14 on page 7.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

60

 

Page  16,  line  40,  leave out Clause 12.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

61

 

Page  23  [Clause  19],  leave out lines 38 to 45.


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

62

 

Page  23,  line  46  [Clause  19],  leave out from beginning to end of line 10 on page 24.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

63

 

Page  6,  line  33  [Clause  2],  at end insert ‘provided that such particulars shall not

 

include taking any medical treatment, including medication or psychological therapies’.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

64

 

Page  26  [Clause  19],  leave out lines 1 to 38.

 

Mr Paul Rowen

 

65

 

Page  34,  line  17  [Clause  24],  leave out ‘(of at least one week but not more than two

 

weeks)’ and insert ‘of one week’.

 

Hywel Williams

 

Mark Williams

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

Adam Price

 

Mr Dai Davies

 

66

 

Page  49,  line  32  [Clause  44],  after ‘BIRTH’, insert ‘AND DEATH’.

 

Hywel Williams

 

Mark Williams

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

Adam Price

 

Mr Dai Davies

 

67

 

Page  49,  line  33  [Clause  44],  after ‘births’, insert ‘and deaths’.

 

Hywel Williams

 

Mark Williams

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

Adam Price

 

Mr Dai Davies

 

68

 

Page  49,  line  38  [Clause  44],  after ‘births,’, insert—

 

‘(ba)    

amendments of that Act relating to: the registration of birth and deaths

 

where particulars are given in Welsh and English; and certificates of

 

particulars of entries of registers of births and deaths’.

 

Hywel Williams

 

Mark Williams

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

Adam Price

 

Mr Dai Davies

 

69

 

Page  91,  line  4  [Schedule  6],  after ‘BIRTHS’, insert ‘AND DEATHS’.


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Hywel Williams

 

Mark Williams

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

Adam Price

 

Mr Dai Davies

 

70

 

Page  97,  line  11  [Schedule  6],  leave out ‘the registrar’ and insert ‘any person’.

 

Hywel Williams

 

Mark Williams

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

Adam Price

 

Mr Dai Davies

 

71

 

Page  97,  line  15  [Schedule  6],  leave out ‘the registrar’ and insert ‘no person shall be

 

registered’.

 

Hywel Williams

 

Mark Williams

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

Adam Price

 

Mr Dai Davies

 

72

 

Page  100,  line  27  [Schedule  6],  at end insert—

 

‘13A      

In section 13 of the 1953 Act (registration of name of child or of alteration of

 

name) after subsection (1A) insert—

 

“(1B)    

If the child’s birth has been registered in the register of live births kept

 

by the Registrar General under section 24A of this Act, the Registrar

 

General shall enter the name mentioned in the certificate in that

 

register.”.

 

13B      

In section 14 of the 1953 Act (re-registration of births of legitimated persons)

 

after subsection (4) insert—

 

“(4A)    

Where a birth is re-registered under this section in such circumstances

 

as may be prescribed, provision may be prescribed for the Registrar

 

General of an entry in the register of live-births kept by the Registrar

 

General under section 24A of this Act.”.

 

13C      

In section 14A of the 1953 Act (re-registration after declaration of parentage)

 

after subsection (2) insert—

 

“(3)    

Where a birth is re-registered under this section in such circumstances

 

as may be prescribed, provision may be prescribed for the Registrar

 

General of an entry in the register of live-births kept by the Registrar

 

General under section 24A of this Act.”.

 

13D      

After section 24 of the 1953 Act (certificates as to registration of death)

 

insert—

 

“24A  

Registers of birth and deaths in England and Wales of which

 

particulars are given in Welsh

 

(1)    

If the registrar for a sub-district in England receives a declaration or

 

statement made under section 9 or 23A of this Act in Welsh (as well

 

as in English) to a prescribed officer in Wales who could understand

 

and write Welsh, the registrar shall (as well as registering or re-

 

registering the birth or death concerned) send the declaration or

 

statement to the Registrar General.


 
 

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(2)    

The Registrar General shall keep at the General Register Office

 

registers of live-births, still-births and deaths in which shall be entered

 

in both English and Welsh the particulars contained in declarations

 

and statements sent to the Registrar General under subsection (1) of

 

this section.”.

 

13E(1)  

Section 30 of the 1953 Act (searches of indexes kept by the Registrar General)

 

is amended as follows.

 

      (2)  

In subsection (1A) for “register kept by him under section 3A” insert “registers

 

kept by him under sections 3A and 24A”.

 

      (3)  

In subsection (2) after “said certified copies”, insert “or registers”.

 

      (4)  

In subsection (3)—

 

(a)    

after “registers of still births”, insert “or to the register of still-births

 

kept by the Registrar General under section 24A of this Act”, and

 

(b)    

at end insert “or in the register of still-births kept by him under section

 

24A of this Act”.

 

13F      

After section 32 of the 1953 Act insert—

 

“32A  

Single language certified copies of bilingual entries

 

Where an entry has been made in any register in both English and

 

Welsh, a certified copy of the entry provided under section 30, 31 or

 

32 of this Act may, if the person to whom it is provided so requests,

 

consist of a copy of only the English or only the Welsh version of the

 

entry.”.

 

13G      

After section 24 of the 1953 Act (certificates as to registration of death)

 

insert—

 

“33    

Certificates of prescribed particulars in register

 

(1)    

Any person shall, on furnishing the prescribed information and on

 

payment of such fee as may be specified, be entitled to obtain a

 

certificate as to such of the particulars contained in any entry of a birth

 

or death in a register as may be prescribed.

 

(2)    

A certificate may be obtained—

 

(a)    

from the Registrar General if he has custody of the register or

 

of a certified copy of the entry; and

 

(b)    

from a superintendent registrar or registrar if he has custody

 

of the register.

 

(3)    

A certificate shall be in the prescribed form and compiled in the

 

prescribed manner.

 

(4)    

In subsection (1) of this section “specified” means specified by order

 

made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and an order under this

 

subsection may make different provision in relation to different

 

descriptions of certificates or provision limited to particular

 

descriptions of certificates.

 

(5)    

The power to make orders under subsection (4) of this section shall be

 

exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to

 

annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of

 

Parliament.”’.


 
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