Welfare Reform Bill

I welcome my noble friend’s remarks. Could he press this issue, which has been raised on several occasions in the past? The obstacle then was not the DWP but that it was a Home Office responsibility. It was the Home Office which, for whatever reason, was reluctant to engage in the necessary preparatory work, either to release people out or to bring people in, to set this in place. The noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, is right: unless someone has a secure housing address that they can afford to go to, you will get a revolving door. But, from my memory, the problem did not lie with the DWP but elsewhere. If my noble friend can restart the discussions, I am sure that would be really welcome.