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govt loses three votes in the Lords over ESA reform
The government has tonight lost three votes in the House of Lords over its welfare reform plans.
Peers voted by 260 to 216 to protect up to 15,000 young disabled people from cuts to employment and support allowance.
They also voted 234 to 186 for a two-year limit on claims, rather than the proposed one year .... and by 222 to 166 to exempt cancer sufferers from a limit.
Chris Grayling says that they will reverse them all in the Commons.
He would, wouldn’t he?
next up .... abolition of DLA ... Lords vote on tuesday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2012/jan/10/welfare-reform-bill-guide-interactive
it appears that a vote on an amendment introduced by Lord Freud late on Wednesday evening, after many peers had left, may have overturned the substantive effect of the amendment retaining ESA in youth -
for more information see Welfare reform: Lords defeat government proposals - live discussion on the Guardian website.
Is there really something in the air or simply journalistic wishful thinking?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/12/welfare-cuts-cameron