Timeline — Welfare Reform Act 2012

1st readingCommons
16 Feb 2011
1 sitting
Bill introduced in the Commons by
- Mr Iain Duncan SmithMember in chargeConservativeon behalf of Department for Work and Pensions
- Lord FreudConservativeon behalf of Department for Work and Pensions
New bill textAs introduced
- 16 Feb 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
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16 Feb 2011
- Household benefit cap
- Housing Benefit: CPI uprating of Local Housing Allowance
- Lone parent conditionality
- Industrial injuries benefits simplification
- Fraud penalties and sanctions
- Data sharing
- Social Fund localisation
- Assessment of impacts cover note
- Time limiting contributory element of Employment and Support Allowance (16 February 2011)
- Universal Creditno file
- Social sector housing under-occupationno file
- Youth provisions in Employment and Support Allowanceno file
- Entitlement to work as a condition for contributory benefits and statutory paymentsno file
- Disability Living Allowance reform (Personal Independence Payment)no file
- Single Fraud Investigation Serviceno file
- Payments on account of benefitsno file
- Tell Us Once (function of registration service)no file
- Child maintenance (new scheme)no file
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17 Feb 2011
- Bill 154 2010-11 (Explanatory notes to the Bill)
21 Feb 2011
- Relevant documents for the Billno file
04 Mar 2011
- Research Paper (part 1) on the Welfare Reform Billno file
07 Mar 2011
- Research Paper (2) on the Welfare Reform Billno file
2nd readingCommons
09 Mar 2011
- Programme motion
- Money resolution
2 sittings · 2 debates · 297 speeches · 75 speakers
+61
- 09 Mar 2011Welfare Reform Bill71 spk · 279 speeches
- 09 Mar 2011Welfare Reform Bill8 spk · 18 speeches
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10 Mar 2011
- Parliamentary news: Second reading of Welfare Reform Bill, have your sayno file
17 Mar 2011
- Housing Benefit: Uprating Local Housing Benefit: CPI uprating of Local Housing Allowance equality impact assessment
- Conditionality, sanctions and hardship equality impact assessment
- Disability Living Allowance reform equality impact assessment
- Industrial Injuries benefits simplification equality impact assessment
- Single Fraud Investigation Service equality impact assessment
- Payments on account of benefits equality impact assessment
- Consideration of revision before appeal equality impact assessment
- Equality impact assessments general introduction
- Universal credit equality impact assessmentno file
- Household benefit cap equality impact assessmentno file
- Social sector housing under-occupation equality impact assessmentno file
- Youth provisions in Employment and Support Allowance equality impact assessmentno file
- Entitlement to work as a condition for contributory benefits and statutory payments equality impact assessmentno file
- Lone parent conditionality equality impact assessmentno file
- Fraud penalties and sanctions equality impact assessmentno file
- Data sharing equality impact assessmentno file
- Social Fund localisation equality impact assessmentno file
- Tell Us Once (function of registration service) equality impact assessmentno file
- Time-limiting contributory element of Employment and Support Allowance equality impact assessmentno file
- Child maintenance (new scheme) equality impact assessmentno file
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21 Mar 2011
- Parliamentary news: Welfare Reform Bill Committee announce programmeno file
Committee stageCommons
22 Mar – 24 May 2011
13 sittings
New bill textAs introduced
- 22 Mar 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 24 Mar 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 29 Mar 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 31 Mar 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 05 Apr 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 26 Apr 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 28 Apr 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 03 May 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 10 May 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 12 May 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 17 May 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 19 May 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
- 24 May 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
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20 Apr 2011
- Time limiting contributory element of Employment and Support Allowance - revised 20 April 2011 following revisions to the figures at Budget 2011no file
24 May 2011
- Bill showing changes made in committee
08 Jun 2011
- Research Paper 11/48no file
Report stageCommons
13 Jun – 15 Jun 2011
- Programme motion
2 sittings · 2 debates · 511 speeches · 65 speakers
+51
- 13 Jun 2011Welfare Reform Bill39 spk · 260 speeches
- 15 Jun 2011Welfare Reform Bill44 spk · 251 speeches
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3rd readingCommons
15 Jun 2011
Taken in this debate
- 15 Jun 2011Welfare Reform Bill44 spk · 251 speeches
1st readingLords
16 Jun 2011
1 sitting · 1 debate
New bill textAs brought from the Commons
- 16 Jun 2011Welfare Reform Billformal
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17 Jun 2011
- HL Bill 75 EN 2010-2012 (Explanatory Notes to the Bill)
2nd readingLords
13 Sept 2011
1 sitting · 1 debate · 52 speeches · 50 speakers
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- 13 Sept 2011Welfare Reform Bill50 spk · 52 speeches
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Committee stageLords
4 Oct – 28 Nov 2011
17 sittings · 16 debates · 1,692 speeches · 65 speakers
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New bill textAs amended in Grand Committee
- 04 Oct 2011Welfare Reform Bill20 spk · 55 speeches
- 06 Oct 2011Welfare Reform Bill20 spk · 100 speeches
- 10 Oct 2011Welfare Reform Bill21 spk · 101 speeches
- 18 Oct 2011Welfare Reform Bill25 spk · 97 speeches
- 20 Oct 2011Welfare Reform Billformal
- 24 Oct 2011Welfare Reform Bill20 spk · 87 speeches
- 26 Oct 2011Welfare Reform Bill19 spk · 130 speeches
- 01 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill21 spk · 137 speeches
- 03 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill18 spk · 109 speeches
- 08 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill18 spk · 151 speeches
- 10 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill14 spk · 117 speeches
- 14 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill29 spk · 125 speeches
- 16 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill23 spk · 104 speeches
- 21 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill21 spk · 110 speeches
- 23 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill23 spk · 131 speeches
- 28 Nov 2011Welfare Reform Bill24 spk · 138 speeches
- 13 Oct 2011Formal sittingnot recorded in Hansard
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31 Oct 2011
- Conditionality Measures in the 2011 Welfare Reform Bill
- Single Fraud Investigation Service
- Abolition of elements of the discretionary Social Fund and replacement with new local welfare assistance
- Universal Credit
- Function of registration service
- Disability Living Allowance Reform
- Equality Impact Assessment: Conditionality, sanctions and hardship
- Equality Impact Assessment: To require consideration of revision before appeal
- Equality Impact Assessment: Sharing customer data between local authorities and DWP
- Equality Impact Assessment: Introducing an entitlement to work condition for contributory benefits and statutory payments
- Equality Impact Assessments: Time limiting contributory Employment and Support Allowance to one year for those in the work-related activity group
- Equality Assessment: Abolition of concessionary Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) ‘youth’ National Insurance qualification conditions
- Equality Impact Assessment: Housing Benefit: Uprating Local Housing Allowance by the Consumer Price Index
- Equality Impact Assessement: Removing Income Support eligibility for lone parents with a youngest child aged five or over
- Equality Impact Assessment: Single Fraud Investigation Service
- Equality Impact Assessment: Local welfare assistance to replace Social Fund Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans for general living expenses
- Equality Impact Assessment: Welfare Reform Bill Universal Credit
- Requirement to consideration of revision before appealno file
- Amendments to payments on account provision (Budgeting Advances)no file
- Housing Benefit – uprating local housing allowance rates by CPI from April 2013no file
- Equality Impact Assessment: Housing Benefit: size criteria for people renting in the social rented sectorno file
- Equality Impact Assessment: Household Benefit Capno file
- Equality Impact Assessment: Universal Credit Budgeting Advancesno file
- Equality Impact Assessment: Child Maintenance clausesno file
- Equality Impact Assessment: Disability Living Allowance Reformno file
- Equality Impact Assessment: Fraud and Error Penalties and Sanctionsno file
- Equality Impact Assessement: Industrial Injuries scheme simplificationno file
- Equality Impact Assessment: Tell Us Onceno file
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Report stageLords
12 Dec 2011 – 25 Jan 2012
13 sittings · 13 debates · 720 speeches · 86 speakers
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New bill textAs amended on Report
- 12 Dec 2011Welfare Reform Bill15 spk · 31 speeches
- 12 Dec 2011Welfare Reform Bill9 spk · 24 speeches
- 12 Dec 2011Welfare Reform Bill18 spk · 29 speeches
- 14 Dec 2011Welfare Reform Bill24 spk · 81 speeches
- 14 Dec 2011Welfare Reform Bill14 spk · 66 speeches
- 11 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill19 spk · 59 speeches
- 11 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill17 spk · 65 speeches
- 17 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill29 spk · 99 speeches
- 17 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill12 spk · 39 speeches
- 23 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill38 spk · 76 speeches
- 23 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill16 spk · 50 speeches
- 25 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill29 spk · 63 speeches
- 25 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill13 spk · 38 speeches
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23 Jan 2012
- Household Benefit Cap
26 Jan 2012
- Work and Pensions Committee: The Government's proposed child maintenance reforms (HC 1047-I, 2010-12)
- Government response to Work and Pensions Committee: The Government's proposed child maintenance reforms (HC 1727, 2010-12)
3rd readingLords
31 Jan 2012
2 sittings · 2 debates · 80 speeches · 27 speakers
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- 31 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill21 spk · 45 speeches
- 31 Jan 2012Welfare Reform Bill12 spk · 35 speeches
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Consideration of Lords amendmentsCommons
01 Feb 2012
- Programme motion
1 sitting · 1 debate · 503 speeches · 82 speakers
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- 01 Feb 2012Welfare Reform Bill82 spk · 503 speeches
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01 Feb 2012
- Bill 302 EN 2010-2012 (Explanatory Notes to the Bill)
- Bill 302 2010-2012 (Lords Amendments to the Bill)
03 Feb 2012
- Bill 126 2010-2012 (Commons Reason and Amendment) as at 2 February 2012
13 Feb 2012
- Conditionality Measures
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasonsLords
14 Feb 2012
1 sitting · 1 debate · 131 speeches · 40 speakers
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- 14 Feb 2012Welfare Reform Bill40 spk · 131 speeches
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14 Feb 2012
- Parliamentary news: Commons financial privilegeno file
17 Feb 2012
- Bill 306 2010-2012 (Lords Amendments in Lieu)
Consideration of Lords amendmentsCommons
21 Feb 2012
1 sitting · 1 debate · 56 speeches · 21 speakers
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- 21 Feb 2012Welfare Reform Bill21 spk · 56 speeches
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23 Feb 2012
- HL Bill 130 - 2010-12 (Commons Reason)
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasonsLords
29 Feb 2012
1 sitting · 1 debate · 14 speeches · 10 speakers
- 29 Feb 2012Welfare Reform Bill10 spk · 14 speeches
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08 Mar 2012
Queen Elizabeth II grants Royal Assent, and merges this bill into law
09 Mar 2012
Act publishedWelfare Reform Act 2012c. 5 View on legislation.gov.uk ↗

Welfare Reform Bill (Act 2012)

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