Child Poverty Bill
12:00 pm
Charlotte Pickles: I am saying that we already know that if we do nothing, we are going to see massive increases. That £30 billion was something like a 23 per cent. increase in expenditure. If we look back at the history of expenditure on social security, we see similar increases over those periods of times. An initial up-front investment of £2.7 billion, I think I said—I am trying to remember this off the top of my head, but you have access to the report—will accrue around £3.6 billion in savings within two or three years. There will be an overall marked difference between what you are spending and what you get back, which will mean that within a few years, you will—