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  Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill - Second Reading
  
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  The majority of MPs voted to retrospectively replace regulations requiring individuals to carry out "mandatory activity", including work without pay, in order to continue to receive Jobseeker's Allowance to put regulations compliant with the law in place after a court quashed the previous regulations.
  
  Via a retrospective action the Bill prevented the Government having to pay an estimated Â£130 million[1] to those whose Jobseekers Allowance had been sanctioned under the requlations quashed by the court. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to approve the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill[2] at its second reading, approving the main principles of the Bill and allowing it to continue on its path to becoming law. 
  
  The [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/917/contents/made The Jobseekerâs Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011] were [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2013/66.html quashed by the Court of Appeal on 12 February 2013 in the case of R (on the application of Reilly and Wilson) vs Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ([2013] EWCA Civ 66)] on the ground that the Regulations did not contain an appropriate description of the Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme as required by the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/18/contents Jobseekers Act 1995].
  
  The Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill provides for new regulations, [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/276/contents/made The Jobseekerâs Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013] to be treated retrospectively as replacing those quashed by the court and deals with similar flaws in the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/688/introduction/made The Jobseekerâs Allowance (Mandatory Work Activity Scheme) Regulations 2011]. 
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0149/en/2013149en.htm Explanatory notes to the Bill]
  * [2] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/jobseekersbacktoworkschemes.html Parliament's webpage on the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill]
  
  
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