House of Lords Live - Welfare Reform and Work Bill

House of Lords - Welfare Reform and Work Bill

Monday 25 January 2016 Meeting starts at 2.30pm

1. Oral questions: Additional expenditure on housing benefit paid to private landlords as a result of the reduction of social housing units
2. Oral questions: Capacity of Local Authorities to manage the relief effort in area of flooding following budget cuts
3. Oral questions: The social and environmental impact of the extraction of coal-bed methane on forests
4. Legislation: Welfare Reform and Work Bill - Report stage (day 1)
5. Motion: Motion to regret that the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015, which change the existing student support arrangements so that new students starting full-time courses after 1 September 2016 will no longer qualify for a means-tested maintenance grant, will result in a significant decrease in participation in higher education by those in low-income groups, older students, female students, and students from ethnic minorities 
   Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (Labour)
6. Legislation: Faversham Oyster Fishery Company Bill [HL] - 1st reading
7. Legislation: Haberdashers' Aske's Charity Bill [HL] - 1st reading
8. Legislation: New Southgate Cemetery Bill [HL] - 1st reading

FACT - A Bill is a proposal for a new law, or a proposal to change an existing law, presented for debate before Parliament. A Bill can start in the Commons or the Lords and must be approved in the same form by both Houses before becoming an Act (law).

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Watch it live Here From the Lords Chamber - Monday 25 January 2016 Meeting starts at 2.30pm