Legislative Scrutiny: Welfare Reform Bill - Human Rights Joint Committee

Human Rights Joint Committee - Twenty-First Report
Legislative Scrutiny: Welfare Reform Bill

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 6 December 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

Government Bills

1 Welfare Reform Bill

Background

The purposes and effect of the Bill

Information provided by the Government

Explanatory Notes/human rights memoranda

Adequacy of the impact assessments

The lack of draft regulations

The need for monitoring mechanisms

Relevant human rights standards

Our approach

The legal status of the relevant standards

The European Convention on Human Rights

The UN human rights treaties: ICESCR, the UNCRC and the UNCRPD

The scope of the Government's human rights analysis

Significant human rights issues

(1) Destitution

(2) Discrimination

(3) Retrogression

Other human rights issues

(1) Contracting out

(2) Conditionality and drug and alcohol addiction

(3) Information sharing

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Declaration of Lords Interests

List of written evidence

Written Evidence

1. Letter to the Chair, from Mr A. Fisher, of 17 October 2010

2. Letter from the Chair, to Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 20 July 2011

3.Letter to the Chair, from Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 26 September 2011

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament