Welfare Reform Bill

What is that information based on? I am trying to work this out. The department will have made some estimate of the likely outcome of this programme. In other words, will a third or two-thirds of drug users go into it? The department is faced with the possibility of sanctioning the residual number. Does the Minister have that information to hand, or could he share it with us in a letter? For any such programme I am sure that my noble friend will have calculated that X per cent will engage. You can then start to work out some of the costs and whether you should put down a form of dowry to get people into the programme and other such matters, but you need the base number. Of the 350,000, does my noble friend expect 200,000 or 20,000 to respond positively? I would be happy for the Minister to write in reply because I did not forewarn him of this.