Sentences with phrase «welfare uprating»
Asked about the way people like George Osborne have been using the welfare uprating bill to depict Labour as the party of «shirking» benefit claimaints, Clegg said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision [the decision to pass a bill capping benefit rises at 1 %] as one which divides one set of people off against another, the deserving or the undeserving poor, in work or out of work.»
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He says he'll need a welfare uprating bill to enforce changes.
The welfare uprating bill will try to force Labour on the «wrong» side of public opinion, while encouraging party populists like Liam Byrne to get into a firefight with the more left - wing elements.
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The Commons debate on the welfare benefits uprating bill will start at around 2 pm and I will be covering it in detail.
Harriet Harman, his Labour shadow, challenged him to defend the welfare benefits uprating bill and their exchanges mostly did not add anything new to the debate.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the welfare benefits uprating bill is going to clobber people in work.
• The welfare benefits uprating bill, which will impose a 1 % cap on working - age benefit increases until 2016, has easily passed its first Commons hurdle.
Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, debates the controversial welfare benefits uprating bill in the House of Commons
The Department for Work and Pensions has just published an impact assessment for the welfare benefits uprating bill.
I've already mentioned some of the alternative accounts of the IFS report about the welfare benefits uprating bill.
Nothing in the benefits uprating bill being debated by MPs today will help more people find work and increase low wages - despite these being the best ways to reduce welfare spending.
Liam Byrne, the shadow work and pensions secretary, will speak for Labour in the welfare benefits uprating bill debate.
The DWP's welfare benefits uprating bill impact assessment (the Whitehall document spelling out the exact financial implications of a piece of legislation) runs to 11 pages.
12.30 pm: MPs start debating the welfare benefits uprating bill.