Welfare Reform Bill

Indeed, Mr Speaker, and I shall try to be as rapid as I can for that reason. It would be all too easy to bow to pressure to backtrack on these reforms, but we will not do that precisely for the reasons set out by my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke). There is a real problem of people in temporary accommodation, and we also have about a million spare rooms being funded by housing benefit. We must sort out the situation and solve the problem to which he rightly refers. These reforms are designed to do that.