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MPs Reverse Lords’ Welfare Reform Defeats
A showdown between MPs and peers looms after the Commons overturned seven Lords defeats on the Government’s welfare reforms.
MPs voted by big majorities to restore some of the most controversial measures in the Welfare Reform Bill, with a majority of 82 for the controversial cap on benefits.
But in one vote – on the so-called “bedroom tax” – the coalition’s majority slumped to 42, as 14 Liberal Democrat MPs and two Tories, Gordon Henderson and Andrew Percy, rebelled.
Something free for carers in Devon
Dartmoor walks allow carers to be with nature
FREE Dartmoor walks are being organised for people who care for a loved one affected by cancer so they can take some time off and re-energise themselves.
The monthly walks are designed to give cancer carers a chance to be with nature, step away from the trauma they are going through and find time and space form themselves.
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Verran Townsend, a qualified mountain leader and founder of OutsideInsights company, which organises similar walks for business people to help them think outside the box, started organising the Dartmoor walks after his partner was diagnosed with cancer.
Iain Duncan Smith is listening to concerns on welfare reform bill
Iain Duncan Smith will offer minor concessions to critics of his plan to cap state benefit payments as he seeks to rescue his welfare reforms.
By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent
The House of Lords defeated the Government on seven key parts of the Welfare Reform Bill, including the centrepiece proposal to cap out-of-work benefits at £26,000 per household.
However, ministers are determined to overturn all the defeats and will table their own amendments, reinstating the original plans, in the Commons today.
In an attempt to appease Liberal Democrats who have joined Labour critics of the Bill, Mr Duncan Smith is likely to offer “transitional arrangements” to help families who will be hit by the cap.
