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  Welfare Reform and Work Bill - Removal of Work Related Activity Componenent from Employment and Support Allowance - Impact Assessment and Parliamentary Approval of Implementation
  
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  @ MP voted aye against making the removal of the work-related activity component from employment and support allowance conditional on an impact assessment and against requiring Parliament to approve details of implementing the change.
  @ MP voted no to make the removal of the work-related activity component from employment and support allowance conditional on an impact assessment and to require Parliament to approve details of implementing the change.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against making the removal of the work-related activity component from employment and support allowance conditional on an impact assessment and against requiring Parliament to approve details of implementing the change.
  
  MPs were considering the Welfare Reform and Work Bill[1].
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That this House disagrees with Lords amendments 8B and 8C.
  
  Lords amendment 8B stated[2]:
  
  :Page 14, line 24, at end insertâ
   	
  :â(8) Subsections (2) and (3) shall not come into force until the Secretary of State has laid before both Houses of Parliament a report giving his or her estimate of the impact of the provisions in those subsections on theâ 
  :(a) physical and mental health,
  :(b) financial situation, and
  :(c) ability to return to work,
  :of persons who would otherwise be entitled to start claiming the work- related activity component of employment and support allowance.
  
  :(9) Regulations bringing subsections (2) and (3) into force shall not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.â
  
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have added the above text to Clause 13 of the Bill titled ''Employment and support allowance: work-related activity component''[3] The clause provided for an amendment to [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/5/part/1 Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007] to remove the "work-related activity component" from the Employment and Support Allowance. The component is paid at a rate of Â£29.05 per week.[4]  Together with the removal of the Limited Capability for Work component in  Universal Credit the changes are expected to reduce Government spending by Â£640m per year in 2020/21.[4]
  
  Lords amendment 8C stated[2]:
  
  :Page 28, line 2, at end insert â, subject to section 13(8) and (9)â
  
  This would have impacted Clause 31 of the Bill[5], adding the text to subsection (6) which stated:
  
  :The remaining provisions of this Act come into force on such day or days as the Secretary of State may by regulations appoint.
  
  The rejected addition would have enabled amendment 8B to take effect.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork.html Parliament's webpage on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0144/16144.1-4.html Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, 1 March 2016]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2015-2016/0069/lbill_2015-20160069_en_3.htm#pb3-l1g13 Clause 13 of the version of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill to which the amendment applied]
  * [4] [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf Impact assessment of removal of the the ESA Work Related Activity Component and the Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work Element  for new claims]
  * [5] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2015-2016/0069/lbill_2015-20160069_en_4.htm#pb7-l1g31 Clause 31 of the version of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill to which the amendment applied]
  
  
  
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