Welfare Reform Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. I hear very clearly his sympathy for this issue. If it is simply a question of money and therefore timing, one of the things he could do, to put everyone’s minds at ease, is to say, ““Until we can afford it, we will not force a household to be worse off by forcing them into work or sanctioning them””. He could then review the situation when he found the money down the back of the sofa next time.