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House of Commons

 
 

Tuesday 29 March 2011

 

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

 

Welfare Reform Bill

 

[Fifth and Sixth sittings]

 

Clauses 1 to 3 Agreed to.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Withdrawn  4

 

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

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Not called  5

 

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

 

Withdrawn  6

 

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

 

‘(c)    

specify circumstances in which certain groups, which shall include

 

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

 

education.’.

 

Clause Agreed to.

 

 
 

Public Bill Committee Proceedings: 29 March 2011          

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Negatived on division  7

 

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

 

Not called  8

 

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’.

 

Clause Agreed to.

 

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Withdrawn  9

 

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

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Not called  10

 

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

 

Clause Agreed to.

 

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Withdrawn  11

 

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

 

‘(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.’.

 
 

Public Bill Committee Proceedings: 29 March 2011          

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Welfare Reform Bill, continued

 
 

Clause Agreed to.

 

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Withdrawn  16

 

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

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Not called  12

 

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

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Stephen Timms

 

Ms Karen Buck

 

Margaret Curran

 

Not called  17

 

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

 

Withdrawn  14

 

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

 

Not called  15

 

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

 

Clause Agreed to.

 

[Adjourned until Thursday at 9.00 am

 
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