Treasury plans benefit revolution
Press Review 3 August 2001
Blair to risk further backbench rows
Press Review 12 July 2001
Darling to review incapacity benefit
Press Review 4 July 2001
Darling announces new benefit rules
News Article 25 June 2001
Labour is to push for full employment by introducing new measures to put work at the centre of the benefits system.
Welfare Reform Bill (Failed bill 2001/02 session)
Legislation 20 June 2001
The government has announced "the biggest change in the benefits system for more than a generation".
Housing Benefit (Withholding of Payment) Bill (Failed bill 2001/02 session)
Legislation 20 June 2001
A bill introduced by former minister, Frank Field (Lab, Birkenhead), to permit the secretary of state to withhold payment of housing benefit on grounds of anti-social behaviour in certain circumstances.
Rise in incapacity benefit claims
Press Review 23 March 2001
Two million families lose out on tax cut
Press Review 12 January 2001
Widows compensation a 'fiasco'
Press Review 24 November 2000
