There is no question of Shiplee undergoing an Atos work capability assessment or having conditionality attached to his own cheque.
"But at the end of the day, they will have to accept conditionality because, for now, these are the rules".
The guidance is not used to determine whether someone should be sanctioned in the first place (the rules are clear that if a claimants has breached conditionality they will face sanctions) but whether they should subsequently qualify for hardship payments.
Having up-front conditionalities and linking them to providing resources doesn't necessarily yield the results you're looking for, and I don't think attaching aid to conditionalities on environment as well as other objectives is good policy dialogue.
The perceived failure of traditional (ex ante) conditionality has led to proposals for using performance indicators as a basis for aid allocations (ex post conditionality).
Conditionality had always existed for employment benefits, the committee heard: to qualify, you had to be out of a job, able to work, and seeking employment.
Loan conditions, or "conditionality," have been explicitly authorized by the Articles of Agreement since 1968.
For example, the decision to carry out purchases in secondary sovereign-bond markets, subject to a macroeconomic adjustment program with strict and effective conditionality, has contributed to restore market confidence.
"A few weeks ago ministers discovered that their message to be clearer about conditionality had been misinterpreted by a small number of Jobcentre Plus offices who had imposed targets for the number of sanction referrals.
But surely, asked committee member Tory MP Graham Evans, it was necessary to have a tough conditionality and sanctions regime to stop abuse of the system?
