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EnactedRoyal Assentc. 32

Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Act 2021

This bill became lawView the statute on acthub →c. 32 · 17 Nov 2021

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Amendments 19

Committee stage — Lords 11

NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Energy bills and state pension

Moved: Baroness SherlockSponsor: Baroness Drake#88920
NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Universal credit and state pension: mixed aged couples

Moved: Baroness SherlockSponsor: Baroness Drake, Baroness Altmann#88921
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

at end insert— Within six months of the passing of this Act, the Secretary of State must publish a review of the impact of this Act on pensioner poverty.

Moved: Baroness SherlockSponsor: Baroness Drake, Baroness Boycott, Baroness Altmann#88922
DisagreedClause 1DeleteClauseOrSchedule

The above-named Lords give notice of their intention to oppose the Question that Clause 1 stand part of the Bill.

Moved: Lord SikkaSponsor: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Lord Davies of Brixton#89045
NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Review of the impact of this Act on poverty

Moved: Baroness Janke#89096
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

leave out paragraph (a) and insert— for subsection (2) there were substituted—

Moved: Baroness Janke#89097
WithdrawnClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “The universal credit uplift

Moved: Baroness StroudSponsor: Lord Freud, Baroness Boycott, Baroness Janke#89098
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

at end insert “, for the purposes of paragraphs (za) to (c) of that subsection only.”

Moved: Baroness AltmannSponsor: Baroness Drake, Baroness Smith of Newnham, Baroness Wheatcroft#89099
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

leave out from first “of” to end of line 8 and insert “earnings, as adjusted to take account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of earnings for the previous year, including the financial measures implemented by the Government in response to it, in light of the views of the Office of National Statistics.”

Moved: Baroness AltmannSponsor: Baroness Smith of Newnham, Baroness Drake, Baroness Wheatcroft#89100
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

leave out from “if” to end of line 8 and insert “the Secretary of State had determined that the general level of earnings obtaining in Great Britain had increased by 3.8%.”

Moved: Baroness AltmannSponsor: Baroness Wheatcroft#89101
NotMovedClause 2EditBillBody

leave out subsection (2) and insert— Section 1 of this Act comes into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by regulations.

Moved: Lord Sikka#89104

Report stage — Lords 8

WithdrawnClause 2EditBillBody

leave out subsection (2) and insert— Section 1 of this Act comes into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by regulations.

Moved: Lord SikkaSponsor: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Lord Davies of Brixton#89124
DisagreedClause 1DeleteClauseOrSchedule

Leave out Clause 1

Moved: Lord SikkaSponsor: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Lord Davies of Brixton#89125
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

at end insert— Within six months of the passing of this Act, the Secretary of State must publish a review of the impact of this Act on pensioner poverty.

Moved: Baroness SherlockSponsor: Baroness Janke, Baroness Altmann, Baroness Boycott#89128
NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Up-rating of the standard minimum guarantee following review in tax year 2021-22

Moved: Baroness AltmannSponsor: Baroness Janke, Baroness Wheatcroft, Lord Hain#89132
AgreedClause 1EditBillBody

leave out paragraphs (a) to (e) and insert “in subsection (2), at the end there were inserted “in the light of reasonable adjustments to take account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic based on the Office for National Statistics reported earnings figure.””

Moved: Baroness AltmannSponsor: Baroness Janke, Baroness Wheatcroft, Lord Hain#89133
AgreedClause 1EditBillBody

leave out from the first “of” to end of line 8 and insert “earnings obtaining in Great Britain, as adjusted to take account of the exceptional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of earnings.”

Moved: Baroness AltmannSponsor: Baroness Janke, Baroness Wheatcroft, Lord Hain#89134
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

leave out “(1)” and insert “(1)(za) to (c)”

Moved: Baroness AltmannSponsor: Baroness Janke, Baroness Wheatcroft, Lord Hain#89135
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

leave out from “if” to end of line 8 and insert “the Secretary of State had determined that the general level of earnings obtaining in Great Britain had increased by 8.1%.”

Moved: Lord Davies of BrixtonSponsor: Lord Sikka#89136