Exportable Benefits

I am grateful for that clarification of the hon. Gentleman's position. Several hon. Members raised the issue of costs. The figures referred to this morning are projected costs of £50 million by 2011, on the existing past presence test. That is what we project at the most, and that was our reply to the parliamentary question tabled by the hon. Member for North Thanet. That does not take account of what would happen without the past presence test, if benefits were backdated in the way that the hon. Gentleman argued for.