Welfare Reform Bill

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 6:26 pm on 24 July 2006.

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Photo of Jim Murphy Jim Murphy Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Work) 6:26, 24 July 2006

I am sorry for intervening on the hon. Gentleman, because I know that many hon. Members wish to participate in the debate, but I want to clarify the confusion. It is our intention that once the review has concluded in September, we will run both systems in parallel with each other to ensure that proper testing takes place. Whether we call that a dummy run or piloting, it will be an effective way of ascertaining whether we have got the new system absolutely right. We shall compare it with the current assessment of existing cases.