Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill

Lord Crickhowell Excerpts

Thursday 21st March 2013 Lords Chamber

[Lord German]

Certainly. It was col. 825, about half way down towards the bottom of the page.

[Lord Crickhowell]

On the point about paragraph 12, as a member of the Constitution Committee I raise the point that in paragraph 5, and in footnote 8 beneath it, we made clear that the Government provided, both in the Explanatory Notes on the Bill and in the letter to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, that has been circulated, an explanation of why this fast-tracking was necessary. We were also clear that we made no comment in the report about the policy of the Bill and that this was a purely constitutional point.

[Lord German]

I fully accept that. The issue raised by paragraph 12 is why the Government rejected the other options.