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  Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill - Decline Second Reading
  
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  @ MP voted aye to stop a proposed increase in working age benefits and tax credits by 1% in 2014-15 and 2015-16 if prices have risen by 1%.
  @ MP voted no to increase in working age benefits and tax credits by 1% in 2014-15 and 2015-16 if prices have risen by 1%.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to increase working age benefits and tax credits by 1% in 2014-15 and 2015-16 if prices have risen by 1%.
  
  This vote was on a proposal made by Liam Byrne (Labour, Birmingham, Hodge Hill) that MPs should decline to give a second reading of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill, stopping it becoming law. His rejected motion stated[1]
  
  :That this House 
  :''declines'' to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Governmentâs plans; 
  :''notes'' that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single-earner family with children on average will be Â£534 worse off by 2015; 
  :''further notes'' that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Governmentâs work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; 
  :''believes'' that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; 
  :''further believes'' that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long-term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over Â£150,000 to 20 per cent; and 
  :''further believes'' that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over Â£100,000 a year.
  
  This vote was followed by a [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2013-01-08&number=129 vote in which MPs agreed to give the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill its second reading, allowing it to progress towards becoming law], information on effect of the bill can be found on [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2013-01-08&number=129 that subsequent vote's description page] 
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2013-01-08b.188.0#g199.1 Liam Byrne (Labour, Birmingham, Hodge Hill), House of Commons, 8 January 2013]
  
  
  
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