Welfare Reform Bill

The noble Lord is quite right; my terminology was wrong. Clause 1 is indeed about welfare to work, which, as we all know, involves contractors and, as I think we all know, subcontractors. Someone is going to have to monitor all this. As the contractors in the pilots will be localised—I have somewhere a list which the Minister helpfully told us on Thursday was on the DWP website—and in specific geographical areas, it is logical to assume, although no one has yet told me, that the monitoring will be done, in part anyway, by the jobcentres in those areas. This monitoring is on top of the work that they are already doing. Over and above that, of course, there is the movement from the current job adviser to the personal adviser, as I tried to explain. I am suspicious, if I may put it that way.