Welfare Reform Bill

I, too, support the amendment—particularly what the noble Baroness, Lady Turner, said. This is a delicate subject, as being unemployed is not funny. It needs to be handled sensitively and flexibly, and the Government need to have full control of it. Having been a civil servant, I feel for them. We should be employing civil servants rather than paying over the odds for contractors. We might get it cheaply at the beginning, but not necessarily at the end because of the quality of the work and number of appeals that arise. I firmly believe that it should be kept in-house and that the Government should control training. Maybe that is an ideological situation, but that is what I feel.