Pippa Crerar has posted to X to confirm Romilly Weeks was correct about the possibility of a reasoned amendment to the welfare bill.
Ms Crerar posted:
NEW: A reasoned amendment to the welfare bill is being tabled by 13 Labour committee chairs as first reported by @romillyweeks
It creates a big problem for Keir Starmer & Liz Kendall with around 80 Labour MPs already backing the amendment.
If selected, it would give them chance to oppose second reading of bill because of issues incl poverty, lack of consultation, impact assessments and employment support.
With rebellion still brewing, it could force govt to compromise, or else it could ultimately kill the bill, leaving govt with a £5bn black hole to fill and seriously humiliated by own party.
Ms Crerar also posted the full text of the amendment:
That this House, whilst noting the need for the reform of the social security system, and agreeing with the Government's principles for providing support to people into work and protecting people who cannot work, declines to give a Second Reading to the 'Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment' Bill because its provisions have not been subject to a formal consultation with disabled people, or co-produced with them, or their carers; because the Office for Budget Responsibility is not due to publish its analysis of the employment impact of these reforms until the autumn of 2025; because the majority of the additional employment support funding will not be in place until the end of the decade; because the Government's own impact assessment estimates that 250,000 people will be pushed into poverty as a result of these provisions, including 50,000 children; because the Government has not published an assessment of the impact of these reforms on health or care needs; because the Government is still awaiting the findings of the Minister for Social Security and Disability's review into the assessment for Personal Independence Payment and Sir Charlie Mayfield's independent review into the role of employers and government in boosting the employment of disabled people and people with long-term health conditions'
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1937216648206807078
