Member

I hope the noble Baroness, Lady Teather, will take this at face value: the goal of the Home Office is not to make people destitute but to try to maintain fairness in the system. Removal of support does not automatically cause destitution. Decisions on whether individuals are eligible for support, or are on support, or whether they should remain eligible for support will be made in the interim on a case-by-case basis, pending any discussion on further policy statements downstream. Regarding those policy statements, we are committed to our international obligations. Revocation of the duty, and its replacement with the power, will provide us with more discretion. But the Government will not operate a policy that breaches Article 3 of the ECHR.