Social Security

I will not be led astray, Madam Deputy Speaker. I just try my best to be courteous to Members who intervene on me, and to give straight answers to straight questions, which I thought that I had done. If that requires me to be led astray, I shall not do it in future, or certainly not in this debate. In relation to the Turner report, the Minister said in his December speech:"““We will bring back proposals in the spring, which I hope will be on the basis of as broad a consensus as possible””.—[Official Report, 6 December 2005; Vol. 440, c. 746–7.]" Will the Minister tell us whether that timetable is still operative, and when in spring we might expect the Government’s response to Turner? I do not wish to try your patience, Madam Deputy Speaker, by referring again to the incapacity Green Paper, but that was an important document postponed from last summer that did not see the light of day until January, after at least two or perhaps more postponements—