The Labour government’s revised Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill returned to the House of Commons on 9 July, with ministers pushing for a third-reading vote after a last-minute climbdown on deeper welfare cuts a week earlier. Welfare Minister Stephen Timms spent the morning in one-to-one meetings with potential rebels, while backbencher Marie Tidball sought support for an amendment that would require disabled people to play a central role in a forthcoming review of Personal Independence Payment. Despite the concessions, the bill still proposes removing about £2 billion from disability support by 2029-30. An official impact assessment indicates that up to 750,000 future claimants would lose an average £3,000 a year, and critics warn the measure could push roughly 50,000 disabled people into poverty. Labour MPs Rachael Maskell, Kim Johnson and Nadia Whittome told the Commons the plan would leave a “stain” on the party, while the Conservative opposition urged MPs to endorse its own amendments to deepen savings. The legislation also retains the two-child limit on child benefit, which the Children’s Commissioner says keeps roughly 500,000 children in poverty. Although ministers have abandoned earlier proposals to narrow eligibility for Personal Independence Payment and to freeze the Universal Credit health element for existing claimants, campaigners and several Labour backbenchers continue to press for the remaining reductions to be scrapped before the final vote.