Page 14 - link magazine

14 LETTER FROM WESTMINSTER

Welfare reform and pensions

Swindon North MP Michael Wills looks at the issues
Recently the headlines have been up to an extra £26.40 a week for was first founded. Today there are I believe it is in everyone's inter-
full of the battle between Lords people who have been disabled more women workers, more flex- ests to ensure that the welfare state
and Commons over the Govern- from birth. ible working patterns, more sin- is modernised to ensure that help
ment's Welfare Reform and Pen- But we also need to ensure that gle-parent families and earlier re- and support reach those most in
sions Bill: 'Welfare Bill sabotaged by taxpayers' money is spent on those tirement, for example. need.
defiant peers', 'Lord wreak revenge who need it most. That is why we
with defeat on pensions'. have proposed that for any new
Yet, if the prospect of an all out claimants, Incapacity Benefit Joy for Julia
battle between the two chambers should be restricted for those with
of Parliament has been too tempt- significant occupational pensions South Swindon MP, Julia Drown will be spending the next couple of
ing for Westminster journalists to to rely on: once such a pension months away from Westminster to spend time with her new baby.
resist, the facts have been largely reaches £220 a week or around £300 Julia and her partner Bill Child 8oz. Julia described the birth as
ignored. for a couple, then Incapacity Ben- recently announced the birth of miraculous. She said, "the bit I re-
This Government was elected efit, always intended to be a ben- their second child. The baby, member most of the birth is there's
on a platform to reform a welfare efit to replace lost income, would named Harvey Dexter, was born a whole new person in the world".
system that few believe is working be stopped. on 26 October and weighed 61b, Bill, a philosophy lecturer at

Wyvern Staff Agency ° '

Our client, Cellular Operations Limited
have the following permanent
vacancies:
Full time Customer Service Advisors
s SWINDON CYCLES £15k + bonus + benefits
SUPERSTORE 1 Working on a weekly rotating shift basis
One Saturday and one Sunday per month
C60a Beechcroft Road (Ex Car Showroom)
Between Stratton Crossroads & Kingsdown Part time Customer Service Advisors
Tel: (01793) 700105 £6.70 per hour
Minimum 25 hours per week including
• With over 230 cycles
a compulsory Saturday
on show, the choice is BIG
Part time administrators
• Ranging from juniors
to around the £6.70 per hour
Open Monday to
£2,000 lightweight Saturday 9am to 5.30pm 25 hours per week working Monday to Friday
Closed Sundays 5pm - 10pm
m anExa—
RALEIGH I ^ ^` o `;°`. Please send curriculum vitae to
YOONgANEM _ Nikki Gill or Caroline Sloman
eE ^noEr
Repairs and after sales service
at Wyvern Staff Agency, 24 Commercial Road,
Workshop on the premises with trained staff WE Swindon SN1 5NS
HERE
Spares & Accessories s kE
MM Tel: 01793 513363 Fax: 01793 488535