Clause 2
Welfare Reform Bill
12:00 pm
Danny Alexander (Shadow Minister and Disability Spokesperson, Work & Pensions; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Liberal Democrat)
There are two different unintended consequences. The first is that which the hon. Gentleman describes, but the difference between the support component and the work-related activity is not only the level of benefit, but the level of obligation or conditionality of that benefit—the exchange for undertaking or not work-related activity. Both could provide an incentive.