Public Bill Committees
Age-Related Payments Bill

• Age-Related Payments Bill, 1st sitting (5 speeches)
  [Derek Conway in the Chair]
  • Clause 1 - ''Qualifying individual'' and ''relevant week'' (20 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 10, in clause 1, page 1, line 6, leave out from 'attains' to end and insert 'was born on or before 31st March 1935.'.
  • Clause 2 - Entitlement: basic cases (14 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 2, in clause 2, page 1, line 18, at end insert 'and'.
  • Clause 3 - Entitlement: special cases (7 speeches)
    Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
  • Clause 4 - Disqualifications (11 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 4, in clause 4, page 3, line 12, leave out paragraph (a). This is a probing amendment. Those are famous last words, but I am sure that there is a simple explanation,...
  • Clause 5 - Procedure (34 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 11, in clause 5, page 3, line 31, at end insert— '(1A) The Secretary of State shall send information about claiming council tax benefit to every person to whom...
  • Clause 6 - Payment to be disregarded for tax and social security (3 speeches)
    Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
  • Clause 7 - Power to provide for payments (7 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 7, in clause 7, page 4, line 15, leave out 'may' and insert 'shall'. Even compared with what has gone before, this part is really interesting because it seems to have...
• Age-Related Payments Bill, 2nd sitting (0 speeches)
  [Mr. Peter Pike in the Chair]
  • Clause 7 - Power to provide for payments (9 speeches)
    Question proposed [this day], That the clause stand part of the Bill. Question again proposed.
  • Clause 8 - Interpretation (10 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 8, in clause 8, page 5, line 17, leave out subsection (2). I apologise to the Committee in advance. I could not resist tabling the amendment because, hidden among...
  • Clause 10 - Extent (2 speeches)
    Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
  • Clause 11 - Citation (3 speeches)
    Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.