Commentary on provisions of Act Section 15: Employment and support allowance: work-related activity component
The section amends Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 which introduced employment and support allowance (ESA).
	Subsection (2) amends section 2 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 to remove provision for payment of a work-related activity component in relation to contributory ESA.
	Subsection (3) amends section 4 of the Act to remove provision for payment of a work-related activity component in relation to income-related ESA.
	Subsection (4) provides the Secretary of State with the power to make regulations for transitional and savings purposes in connection with subsection (2) and (3). The intention is that these regulations will include provision for claimants who are already in receipt of the work-related activity component in ESA to continue to receive that component.
	Subsection (5) provides that regulations under subsection (4) may provide for the work-related activity component to be payable to existing incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance and income support claimants who have not yet had their awards converted to ESA and are placed in the work-related activity group following conversion.
	Subsections (6) and (7) provide that the regulations under subsection (4) must be made by statutory instrument subject to the negative procedure.