Clause 8
Welfare Reform Bill
3:15 pm
Danny Alexander (Shadow Minister and Disability Spokesperson, Work & Pensions; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Liberal Democrat)
I want to ensure that the Committee understands this point precisely. The Minister used a specific form of words: he said that customers will have a right to appeal against every decision that attracts a sanction. What about decisions that do not attract a sanction, such as a decision whether to grant benefit or a decision as to which component of benefit someone will be entitled to? Those decisions do not carry a sanction, yet people would expect a right of appeal against them, and I certainly hope that they would have that right.