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House of Commons

 
 

Thursday 24 March 2011

 

Public Bill Committee

 

New Amendments handed in are marked thus Parliamentary Star

 

Parliamentary Star - whiteAmendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

 

Welfare Reform Bill


 

Note

 

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

 

Committee [22 March].

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

4

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  4,  page  2,  line  15,  leave out ‘18’ and insert ‘16’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

5

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  4,  page  2,  line  24,  leave out ‘prescribed cases’ and insert ‘claimants who

 

come within section 22’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

6

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  4,  page  2,  line  37,  at end insert—


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

‘(c)    

specify circumstances in which certain groups, which shall include

 

parents, young people and disabled students, are treated as not receiving

 

education.’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

7

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  4,  after ‘it’, insert ‘excluding amounts in an Individual

 

Savings Account or other prescribed saving account where the claimant is in work’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

8

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  10,  after ‘it’, insert ‘excluding amounts in an Individual

 

Savings Account or other prescribed saving account where one of the claimants is in

 

work’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

9

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  6,  page  3,  leave out lines 21 and 22.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

10

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  6,  page  3,  line  23,  leave out ‘or (c)’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

11

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  7,  page  3,  leave out lines 32 to 35 and insert—


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

‘(3A)    

Regulations shall make provision for universal credit to be payable in respect of

 

a period shorter than an assessment period at a pro rata amount, including at a

 

frequency of twice per month.’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

16

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  8,  page  4,  line  10,  at beginning insert ‘for employees’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

12

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  8,  page  4,  line  12,  after ‘percentage’, insert ‘not exceeding 60 per cent.’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

17

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  8,  page  4,  line  12,  leave out ‘and’ and insert ‘or for self-employed people an

 

amount in respect of earned income calculated in the prescribed manner (which may

 

include multiplying some or all earned income by a prescribed percentage), and’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

14

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  8,  page  4,  line  12,  at end insert—

 

‘(aa)    

an amount in respect of prescribed unearned income calculated as in

 

subsection 3(a).’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

15

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  8,  page  4,  line  13,  after ‘of’, insert ‘other’.

 


 

Kate Green

 

3

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  9,  page  4,  line  25,  at end insert ‘such regulations will make reference to an

 

independently determined Minimum Income Standard.’.


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

18

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  9,  page  4,  line  25,  at end insert ‘and arrangements for its annual uprating.’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

21

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  10,  page  4,  line  30,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

22

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  10,  page  4,  line  31,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

Regulations shall make provision for the inclusion of an additional amount if such

 

a child or qualifying young person is severely disabled, in addition to the amount

 

referred to in subsection (2).’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

19

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  10,  page  4,  line  33,  at end insert ‘and arrangements for their annual

 

uprating.’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

23

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  11,  page  5,  line  4,  at end insert ‘, and the taxation paid in relation to it’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

24

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  11,  page  5,  line  29,  at end add—

 

‘(6)    

Before implementing the regulations in subsections (3), (4) and (5), the Secretary

 

of State shall publish a report on his method for uprating awards for housing


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

costs, covering the effect of differences between actual rent and the amount on

 

which the award is based.’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

25

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  11,  page  5,  line  29,  at end add—

 

‘(c)    

provide for payments made under this Clause to be paid direct to a

 

landlord.’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

26

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  12,  page  5,  line  32,  leave out ‘such’ and insert ‘childcare costs in prescribed

 

circumstances (up to a maximum of not less than 80 per cent. of the prescribed allowable

 

amount) and such other.’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

27

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  12,  page  5,  line  33,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

28

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  12,  page  5,  line  38,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

the fact that a claimant has children in receipt of free school meals.’.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

29

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  12,  page  5,  line  38,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

the fact that a claimant is a severely disabled person.’.


 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

20

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  12,  page  5,  line  40,  at end insert ‘and arrangements for its annual uprating.’.

 


 

Kate Green

 

1

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  14,  page  6,  line  23,  at end insert ‘and a statement of the responsibilities of

 

the Secretary of State with regards to that claimant.’.

 

Kate Green

 

2

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  14,  page  6,  leave out lines 32 and 33 and insert—

 

‘(c)    

a statement of the responsibilities of the Secretary of State with regard to

 

that claimant,

 

(d)    

details of how the claimant may appeal the contents of the claimant

 

commitment,

 

(e)    

any other information the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to

 

include.’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

30

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  18,  page  8,  line  37,  leave out ‘(or more paid work or better-paid work)’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

13

 

Parliamentary Star    

Schedule  1,  page  102,  line  25,  leave out ‘of’ and insert ‘or both’.

 



 
 

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

31

 

Parliamentary Star    

Schedule  6,  page  121,  line  23,  at end insert—

 

‘(4)    

Before he has fixed the appointed day, the Secretary of State shall publish a report

 

on access to welfare advice, including advice for those unable to use the Internet,

 

and shall satisfy himself on the basis of the report that provision is adequate to

 

support migration to Universal Credit.’.

 

 

Order of the House [9 march 2011]

 

That the following provisions shall apply to the Welfare Reform Bill—

 

Committal

 

1.    

The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

 

Proceedings in Public Bill Committee

 

2.    

Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

 

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 24 May 2011.

 

3.    

The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

 

which it meets.

 

Consideration and Third Reading

 

4.    

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 those proceedings are commenced.

 

5.    

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

 

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

 

6.    

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

 

proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

 

Other proceedings

 

7.    

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.

 

 

Order of the Committee [22 March 2011]

 

That—

 

(1)  

the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 am on Tuesday

 

22 March) meet—

 

(a)  

at 4.00 pm on Tuesday 22 March;

 

(b)  

at 9.00 am and 1.00 pm on Thursday 24 March;

 

(c)  

at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 29 March;

 

(d)  

at 9.00 am and 1.00 pm on Thursday 31 March;

 

(e)  

at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 5 April;

 

(f)  

at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 26 April;

 

(g)  

at 9.00 am and 1.00 pm on Thursday 28 April;


 
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