Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people - Work and Pensions Committee Contents


Formal Minutes


The following declarations of interest relating to the inquiry were made:

19 October 2011

The Chair declared a pecuniary interest as a recipient of the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance.

Wednesday 8 February 2012

Members present:


Dame Anne Begg, in the Chair
Harriett Baldwin
Andrew Bingham
Karen Bradley 
Sheila Gilmore
Mr Oliver Heald
Glenda Jackson
Brandon Lewis
Stephen Lloyd
Teresa Pearce




Draft Report (Government support towards the additional living costs of working-age disabled people), proposed by the Chair, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 59 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 60 read.

Amendment proposed, in the footnote at the end of the paragraph, after "Neil Coyle" to add ", a Labour Councillor in the London Borough of Southwark." —(Harriett Baldwin.)

Question put, That the Amendment be made.

The Committee divided.

Ayes, 6       Noes, 3

Harriett Baldwin    Sheila Gilmore

Andrew Bingham    Glenda Jackson

Karen Bradley      Teresa Pearce

Mr Oliver Heald

Brandon Lewis

Stephen Lloyd  

Amendment agreed to.

Paragraph, as amended, agreed to.

Paragraphs 61 to 177 read and agreed to.

Summary agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Seventh Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chair make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That embargoed copies of the Report be made available, in accordance

with the provisions of Standing Order No. 134.

Written evidence was ordered to be reported to the House for printing with the Report (in addition to that ordered to be reported for publishing on 7 and 14 September, 2 November and 12 December 2011).

[Adjourned till Wednesday 22 February at 9.15 am.



 
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