Welfare Reform Bill
12:00 pm
Jonathan Shaw: Good morning. One could say that if we were very prescriptive we would be in danger of constraining the possibilities under right to control. That is why we have said that we want to have the trailblazers, which I know you asked the chief executive of RADAR about. We want to have them so that we can look at all the possibilities. If we are too prescriptive at this stage, we might need to come back and have further legislation. In addition social care is there, so there will be a danger of duplicating that legislation. I believe there is sufficient legislation; we should not create confusion by being prescriptive in the Bill.
We have provided the Committee with a helpful paper which includes all the various parts of the legislation. It is right to have as wide a scope as possible. We have set out our stall to ensure that local authorities can act in partnership with ourselves and other public bodies. Most importantly, that has to be underpinned by working with disabled people and their organisations to find out what works.