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  Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill - Clauses 1 to 3 and Schedule - Increasing Specified Benefits by 1% Rather Than Prices
  
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  @ MP voted aye to cap any increase in specified benefits payments and tax credits at 1% rather allow them to be increased by 2.2% in line with prices. 
  @ MP voted no not to cap specified benefits payments and tax credits at 1% potentially allowing them to increase by 2.2% in line with prices. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to cap any increase in specified benefits payments and tax credits at 1% rather than allow them to be increased by 2.2% in line with prices. 
  
  MPs were considering the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill. The motion voted on read:
  
  :That clauses 1 to 3 stand part of the Bill; and that the schedule be the schedule to the Bill.
  
  Clauses 1 to 3 and the schedule amount to the whole Bill.[1] A vote in favour of this motion was a vote in favour of the whole bill. 
  
  The explanatory notes to the bill[2] explain its purpose:
  
  :In the Autumn Statement, it was announced that in light of the national economic situation, certain working-age social security benefits and payments, and certain elements of tax credits, would be up-rated by 1 percent, rather than prices (as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (âCPIâ), 2.2 per cent), for the tax year 2013-14. 
  
  :The working-age social security benefits and payments in question are:
  :The main rates of Income Support, Jobseekerâs Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Housing Benefit; and the work-related activity group component of Employment and Support Allowance Maternity Allowance; and Statutory Adoption, Maternity, Paternity and Sick Pay .
  
  This vote was required as a result of a requirement in the agreed timetable (which was the subject of [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2013-01-08&number=130 a vote on the 8th of January 2013]) which required the business to be concluded.  It was followed by [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2013-01-21&number=138&dmp=6670 a vote on the third reading of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill]
  
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0116/cbill_2012-20130116_en_1.htm Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill as introduced on 20 December 2012] 
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0116/en/130116en.htm Explanatory Notes to the Bill dated 20 December 2012] 
  * [3] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/welfarebenefitsuprating.html Parliament's webpage on the  Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill] (Now the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013
  
  
  
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