Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2)

I am fascinated by the Minister's suggestion that people who volunteer cannot be lone parents, as she has just contrasted one group with the other. In relation to housing, it could be suggested that amendment 31 would not achieve the results that the Government want. Having made one change—reducing the local housing allowance to the 30th percentile—are the Government really suggesting that they would be happy to see it move far beneath that if a gap appeared between that percentile and rent, if uprating were only in line with the CPI? Rents were previously uprated according to the movement of the market.