Welfare Reform Bill

I am delighted to hear that the provision is basically designed to stop the ““thwarting””—I think that that was the word that the Minister used—of the purposes of the Bill by a customer claimant. I readily understand that. I am sure that the Joint Committee on Human Rights will be delighted by the two rights of appeal which the Minister has just highlighted. That is extremely helpful. I will study what he said as usual, but, for the moment, I am more than content with the clause. Clause 14 agreed to. Clause 15 [Contracting out]: