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Welfare concessions to be set out ahead of crunch vote

The Government will amend the Bill at the Commons committee stage to put the changes in place.

Evening Standard

Labour in ‘good place now’ on welfare, Kendall insists after Government U-turn

Number 10 offered concessions in a late-night climbdown to head off Sir Keir Starmer’s first Commons defeat.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer sparks 'two-tier' benefits system row with major U-turn on welfare cuts

The U-turn on personal independence payments will protect the incomes of some 370,000 people - but new claimants could be more than £5,000 worse off

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Starmer offers major concessions on benefit cuts after crisis talks with Labour rebels

In a letter to MPs, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall said personal independence payments would be protected

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Three committees complain of ‘inadequate consultation’ over welfare reforms

Committees from the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd and Northern Ireland Assembly have written jointly to Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall.

The Independent UK

Welfare rebellion not a confidence vote, PM says as he remains defiant over cuts

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he will ‘press on’ despite the backbench rebellion.

Evening Standard

More than 100 MPs threaten to halt welfare reforms in PM’s biggest rebellion

The rebellion would be enough to defeat the Government’s plans if opposition MPs joined the Labour rebels.

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Labour MPs rebel against welfare cuts with bid to kill Bill

Dozens of MPs, including 11 select committee chairs, are understood to have backed an amendment.

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Welfare reform legislation to be debated next month, MPs told

The Government has faced backlash from some Labour MPs over the ‘damaging disability benefit cuts’, which it said could save up to £5 billion a year.

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Welfare reform marks moment of compassion, says Kendall amid backbench anger

Ministers are likely to face a Commons stand-off with backbench Labour MPs over their plans.

Evening Standard

Flagship welfare reform plans to be introduced in Parliament

The major reforms are set to include the tightening of criteria for the main disability benefit in England, personal independence payment (Pip).

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Kendall to add protections to welfare Bill amid backlash to cuts

Dozens of Labour MPs last month urged the Prime Minister to pause and reassess planned cuts, saying the proposals are ‘impossible to support’.

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Kendall vows to give young people ‘chances and choices’ for a better life

The Work and Pensions Secretary was speaking at the launch in Liverpool of a programme to get young people into education, work and training.

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Kendall says welfare reforms will address ‘economic and social crisis’

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall insisted changes are necessary to get people off benefits and into work.

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Starmer reveals U-turn on cuts to winter fuel payments as Labour MPs threaten revolt and Reform surge in polls

The PM made the announcement in the Commons that the Government was reconsidering the controversial policy

The Independent UK

DWP should have legal duty to look after vulnerable benefits claimants, say MPs

Ministers should introduce the statutory duty to prevent people from dying as a result of mistakes in the welfare system, a Commons committee said.

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Review of Pip disability benefits under way, minister says

Liz Kendall said the DWP would be meeting with disabled people and organisations as she looks to tighten eligibility for the benefit.

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Labour vote to give themselves power to spy on people's bank accounts

LABOUR have voted to give ministers powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts in a move branded “Orwellian levels of mass…

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Government's first back to work scheme rolls out in London as benefits cuts loom

West London is the first area in the country to get funding from the Government’s ‘Connect to Work’ programme, which aims to support 100,000 people per year people into jobs as disability payments are cut

The Independent UK

Extra 400,000 people to be signed off as unfit for work under Labour’s welfare reforms, government admits

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has insisted the changes are needed to fix the ‘broken’ system left by the last Conservative government

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Labour MPs urge Rachel Reeves to rethink cuts to health and disability benefits

Debbie Abrahams, who chairs the Work and Pensions Committee, questioned how ‘making people sicker and poorer’ would help the economy.

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We cannot claim to be untainted by austerity after benefits cuts – Labour MP

Brian Leishman has hit out over the reforms which were announced last week by Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall.

Evening Standard

Diane Abbott in PMQs showdown with Keir Starmer over 'morality' of benefit cuts

Diane Abbott accused the Government of balancing ‘the country's books on the back of the most vulnerable and poor in society’

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People with long-term health conditions welcome Government decision on payments

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall announced an overhaul of the welfare system and reform to disability benefits on Tuesday.

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Government defends major welfare reforms but charities condemn ‘cruel cuts’

The planned changes have been met with anger from Labour MPs, unions and charities.

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