The hon. Gentleman is in full flow about something for which he feels great passion. I do not want to interrupt him so much as inject a little balance. He has mentioned incapacity benefit. During the years of Conservative Government, the number of people receiving incapacity benefit ballooned. That might have been because that Government wanted to massage down the unemployment figures and massage up the figures for incapacity benefit.
Social Security
Proceeding contribution from
Danny Alexander
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 16 February 2006.
It occurred during Legislative debate on Social Security.
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