Starmer offers Labour MPs major welfare bill concession | Welfare
Keir Starmer presented Labor Backbenchers a great concession on the benefits of disability in the last ditch attempt to limit the greatest rebellion of his premiere and even take the controversial welfare invoice.
Welfare Minister Stephen Timms said MPs will plan to make great deductions in their personal independence payments in the afternoon of Tuesday afternoon. Instead, the ministers will make changes in disability payments after notifying the findings of TIMMS examination to the whole system to be finalized in the autumn next autumn.
In accordance with the original plans, as of November 2026, plaintiffs will have to get four points in daily life activity to qualify for the PIP. Timms said: “[MPs] During this discussion, the Assembly expressed concerns that the changes in the PIP would lead the consequences of the review of the review of the evaluation.
“We have heard these concerns and therefore I can announce that we will remove the fifth article from the bill in the committee, but we will go directly to a wider examination – sometimes called TIMMS review – and we will make changes to PIP conformity activities and definitions only following this review.”
A few days later, when the government offered great concessions to the workers’ deputies from a harmful defeat of harmful Advamat, dozens of backbencher was still planning to vote against the bill on Tuesday evening.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and government whips are said to have warned that Downing Street is needed. A leading Asi told The Guardian: “If it continues, it’s over.”
However, others said the government has changed the bill beyond all recognition. “What do we need to vote for tonight?” Worker MP Andy McDonald asked. “Is this invoice drawn or another invoice? Because I’m confused.”
While the movement of the movement is expected to secure the second reading, the welfare secretary, Liz Kendall, is a humiliating climb. Kendall said that the new four -point threshold of MPS would be applied from November 2026 a few hours ago and stressed that the government should take the right time for TIMMS review.
Last week, the government presented great concessions after signing a change designed to blew the bill of 126 labor force deputies. They include that the current plaintiff is not affected by universal credit and changes in the PIP.
The rebels also promised that the criteria used to evaluate people for PIP will be a “common production ile with disability groups.
However, the reference conditions of the review will make a higher rod to obtain a PIP – new plaintiffs will receive four points in at least one of the evaluation categories to qualify. However, the examination can look again which skills and conditions can meet certain scores.
The timing of the investigation also caused a deep concern, the deputies, before and after the TIMMs, the plaintiffs evaluating the investigation, the risk of creating a “three -layer” system, he said.
