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  Welfare Reform and Work Bill - Clause 13 - Employment and Support Allowance: Work-Related Activity Component
  
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  @ MP voted aye to retain the "work-related activity component" from the Employment and Support Allowance.
  @ MP voted no to remove the "work-related activity component" from the Employment and Support Allowance.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to remove the "work-related activity component" from the Employment and Support Allowance. This would reduce the amount paid to those who are ill or disabled, but who are not deemed to be severely limited in what they can do, by Â£29.05 per week; reducing the benefit to the same level as job-seeker's allowance.
  
  MPs were considering the Welfare Reform and Work Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment: 56, page 14, line 15, leave out Clause 13
  
  Clause 13[2] was titled ''Employment and support allowance: work-related activity component''. 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.[3] 
  
  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.[3]
  
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html Parliament's webpage on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0081/cbill_2015-20160081_en_3.htm#pb3-l1g13 Clause 13 of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [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]
  
  
  
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