Welfare Reform Bill

I do not want to repeat what I said at the end of our previous sitting in Grand Committee, but I feel honour bound to ask the Government to think very carefully before they decide finally to use an affirmative instrument to do away with income support. After all, these groups will no longer be on income support; there will be no income support customers for whom income support will be abolished. I therefore repeat my comment last Monday that it seems a very strange use of parliamentary time to use the affirmative procedure in those circumstances.