Welfare Reform Bill

I do not have a work-in-progress report from the Law Commission. As I said, the work is underway and the intent is to produce a report in May 2011. I am not in a position to say how far it has reached in its deliberations, but that is the timescale. As regards the noble Lord’s earlier points, we are trying to say that there is a system out there at the moment. We would cause confusion if we overrode that system and had another legislative approach included in the Bill while the Law Commission is looking at the framework of adult social care law. Therefore, what is the difficulty? We are saying that we need to work with the current system, which covers and enables a right to control in certain fields, through our trailblazers and to evaluate those various legislative streams but to achieve that common purpose. I do not see the noble Lord’s difficulty.