Clause 47 - Work-focused interviews for partners
Employment
5:00 pm
Mr George Osborne (Tatton, Conservative)
Perhaps I am anticipating what the Minister is about to say, but I would be interested if he were to explain the genesis of the clause. It is clear that until the general election the Government planned to introduce work-based interviews for people who were unemployed. After the election, in which there was a clear manifesto commitment restricting the policy to unemployed people's partners, they broadened it on the basis of evidence that they had received from, for example, Martin Taylor and the Policy Studies Institute.