22 May 2025
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Research
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Making Work Pay Employment Reforms
The Employment Rights Act 2025 and related legislation reform UK employment law to strengthen worker protections and improve job quality, led jointly by the Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Business and Trade. Key measures include restrictions on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in employment disputes, enhanced fertility treatment rights, and new application requirements for employment contracts. The government is currently implementing the Act through consultation on detailed regulations and guidance.
2025
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4 Mar 2025
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Analysis
Department for Work and Pensions
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Equality Analysis for Statutory Sick Pay Reform Measures in the Employment Rights Bill
In response to: Making Work Pay: Strengthening Statutory Sick Pay
2012
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13 Feb 2012
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Conditionality Measures
1 Feb 2012
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Explanatory notes
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Bill 302 EN 2010-2012 (Explanatory Notes to the Bill)
23 Jan 2012
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Household Benefit Cap
2011
68 events
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Welfare Reform Bill Universal Credit
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Tell Us Once
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Local welfare assistance to replace Social Fund Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans for general living expenses
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Single Fraud Investigation Service
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessement: Removing Income Support eligibility for lone parents with a youngest child aged five or over
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessement: Industrial Injuries scheme simplification
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Housing Benefit: Uprating Local Housing Allowance by the Consumer Price Index
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Fraud and Error Penalties and Sanctions
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Assessment: Abolition of concessionary Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) ‘youth’ National Insurance qualification conditions
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Equality Impact Assessments: Time limiting contributory Employment and Support Allowance to one year for those in the work-related activity group
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Introducing an entitlement to work condition for contributory benefits and statutory payments
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Disability Living Allowance Reform
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Sharing customer data between local authorities and DWP
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: To require consideration of revision before appeal
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Conditionality, sanctions and hardship
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Child Maintenance clauses
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Universal Credit Budgeting Advances
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Household Benefit Cap
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Equality Impact Assessment: Housing Benefit: size criteria for people renting in the social rented sector
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Housing Benefit – uprating local housing allowance rates by CPI from April 2013
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Disability Living Allowance Reform
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Amendments to payments on account provision (Budgeting Advances)
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Function of registration service
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Universal Credit
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Abolition of elements of the discretionary Social Fund and replacement with new local welfare assistance
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Requirement to consideration of revision before appeal
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Single Fraud Investigation Service
31 Oct 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Conditionality Measures in the 2011 Welfare Reform Bill
17 Jun 2011
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Explanatory notes
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — HL Bill 75 EN 2010-2012 (Explanatory Notes to the Bill)
20 Apr 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Time limiting contributory element of Employment and Support Allowance - revised 20 April 2011 following revisions to the figures at Budget 2011
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Equality impact assessments general introduction
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Child maintenance (new scheme) equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Time-limiting contributory element of Employment and Support Allowance equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Tell Us Once (function of registration service) equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Consideration of revision before appeal equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Payments on account of benefits equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Social Fund localisation equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Data sharing equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Fraud penalties and sanctions equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Single Fraud Investigation Service equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Industrial Injuries benefits simplification equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Disability Living Allowance reform equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Conditionality, sanctions and hardship equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Lone parent conditionality equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Entitlement to work as a condition for contributory benefits and statutory payments equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Youth provisions in Employment and Support Allowance equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Housing Benefit: Uprating Local Housing Benefit: CPI uprating of Local Housing Allowance equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Social sector housing under-occupation equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Household benefit cap equality impact assessment
17 Mar 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Universal credit equality impact assessment
17 Feb 2011
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Explanatory notes
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Bill 154 2010-11 (Explanatory notes to the Bill)
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Time limiting contributory element of Employment and Support Allowance (16 February 2011)
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Assessment of impacts cover note
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Tell Us Once (function of registration service)
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Payments on account of benefits
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Social Fund localisation
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Data sharing
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Fraud penalties and sanctions
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Single Fraud Investigation Service
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Industrial injuries benefits simplification
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Disability Living Allowance reform (Personal Independence Payment)
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Lone parent conditionality
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Entitlement to work as a condition for contributory benefits and statutory payments
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Youth provisions in Employment and Support Allowance
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Housing Benefit: CPI uprating of Local Housing Allowance
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Social sector housing under-occupation
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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Welfare Reform Act 2012 — Impact Assessments: Household benefit cap
16 Feb 2011
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Impact assessment
Department for Work and Pensions
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