Human Rights Joint Committee - Fourteenth Report
Legislative Scrutiny: Welfare Reform Bill; Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill; Health Bill

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 21 April 2009.

Contents

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Terms of Reference

Summary

Government Bills

1 Welfare Reform Bill

Introduction

Background

Welfare, benefits and human rights

Welfare reform: significant human rights issues

Employment Support Allowance and work-related activities

"Work for your benefit"

Parents and "work-related activities"

Conditionality and drug and alcohol dependency

Personalisation, individual budgets and disabled people

Contracting out

Powers of the Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission (CMEC)

Joint responsibility for birth registration

2 Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Background

Purposes of the Bill

Explanatory Notes

Significant human rights issues

(1) Education for detained young offenders

(2) Power to search pupils for alcohol, illegal drugs and stolen property

(3) Obligation to record significant incidents involving use of force by staff on pupils

(4) UNCRC as strategic framework for Children's Plans

(5) Children's Centres

3 Health Bill

Healthcare for refused asylum seekers

Conclusions and recommendations

Annex: Proposed Committee Amendments

Formal Minutes

Written Evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

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Prepared 29 April 2009