I will, if I may, reply to the noble Lord’s noble friend first. This is the National Audit Office. It has no partisan view. Its report says that rescheduling had to take place, leading to,
“£250 million … of planned activity”—
meaning the very people the noble Lord is talking about—being moved from the first three months of 2014 into 2014-15. It was delayed. The NAO claims that the rescheduling,
“is likely to have delayed some of the benefits those activities were designed to provide”.
If the noble Lord is sincere in what he is saying, as I am sure he is, he is on my side of this argument.