One other late, and main concession, from the UK Authorities was wanted to keep away from an embarrassing defeat
MPs have voted in favour of watered-down plans to reform welfare funds. The UK Authorities needed to go additional with its concessions from final week to keep away from a humiliating defeat for its plans.
Plenty of MPs, together with 5 Labour MPs from Wales, had mentioned they’d vote for what’s known as a reasoned modification, which, if it had handed, would have sunk the federal government invoice. Plaid Cymru’s 4 MPs additionally mentioned they’d again the modification.
That led the federal government to alter the substance of its invoice with all however one of many Welsh Labour rebels, Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP Steve Witherden, holding his title on the insurgent modification.
In the course of the debate and earlier than any vote the federal government provided an extra concession to rebelling Labour MPs over its plans with incapacity minister Sir Stephen Timms saying adjustments to PIP wouldn’t happen till after a overview of the profit has concluded. The BBC’s political editor, Chris Mason, has mentioned the federal government was advised hours earlier than the poll that numbers confirmed that even with the primary main concession “defeat was very life like”.
The mixture of concessions meant sufficient MPs backed the invoice and the proposal has handed the primary stage of parliamentary scrutiny and it’ll go on to additional scrutiny known as the second studying.. For our free day by day briefing on the largest points dealing with the nation, signal as much as the Wales Issues e-newsletter right here.
Mr Witherden was the one Welsh Labour MP to vote in opposition to the Common Credit score and Private Impartial Cost Invoice. All 4 Plaid Cymru MPs and the only Liberal Democrat additionally refused to offer it their backing.
On Monday 86 incapacity and human rights teams put out a joint assertion urging MPs to vote down the invoice regardless of the protections for present claimants together with Scope, Thoughts, the Trussell Belief, Sense, the Joseph Rowntree Basis, and Oxfam.
In the course of the debate work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall advised the Commons: “Welfare reform, let’s be sincere, is rarely simple, maybe particularly for Labour governments. Our social safety system immediately touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals and it’s one thing all of us care deeply about.
“We’ve listened to the considerations which have been raised to assist us get these adjustments proper. The Invoice protects individuals already claiming PIP, it protects in actual phrases the incomes of individuals already receiving the UC (common credit score) well being top-up from that profit and their commonplace allowance, and it protects these with extreme lifelong circumstances who won’t ever work, and people close to the top of their life as we promised we might.”
Wales has 32 MPs with 27 representing Labour, 4 for Plaid Cymru and one Lib Dem.
How all Welsh MPs voted on the welfare reform:
Aberafan Maesteg
Stephen Kinnock – Labour
For
Alyn and Deeside
Mark Tami – Labour
For
Bangor Aberconwy
Claire Hughes – Labour
For
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
Nick Smith – Labour
For
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
David Chadwick – Liberal Democrat
In opposition to
Bridgend
Chris Elmore – Labour
For
Caerphilly
Chris Evans – Labour
For
Cardiff East
Jo Stevens – Labour
For
Cardiff North
Anna McMorrin – Labour
For
Cardiff South and Penarth
Stephen Doughty – Labour
For
Cardiff West
Alex Barros-Curtis – Labour
For
Caerfyrddin
Ann Davies – Plaid Cymru
In opposition to
Ceredigion Preseli
Ben Lake – Plaid Cymru
In opposition to
Clwyd East
Becky Gittins – Labour
For
Clwyd North
Gill German – Labour
For
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Liz Savile Roberts – Plaid Cymru
In opposition to
Gower
Tonia Antoniazzi – Labour
Llanelli
Nia Griffith – Labour
For
Merthyr Tydfil and
Gerald Jones – Labour
For
Monmouthshire
Catherine Fookes – Labour
For
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
Steve Witherden – Labour
In opposition to
Neath andEast
Carolyn Harris – Labour
For
Newport East
Jessica Morden – Labour
For
Newport West and Islwyn
Ruth Jones – Labour
For
Pembrokeshire Mid and South
Henry Tufnell – Labour
For
Pontypridd
Alex Davies-Jones – Labour
For
Rhondda and Ogmore
Chris Bryant – Labour
For
Swansea West
Torsten Bell – Labour
For
Torfaen
Nick Thomas-Symonds: Labour
For
Vale of Glamorgan
Kanishka Narayan – Labour
For
Wrexham
Andrew Ranger – Labour
For
Ynys Mon
Llinos Medi – Plaid Cymru
In opposition to
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