Welfare Reform Bill
12:00 pm
Mr. McNulty: I am confident that we will have a sufficiently robust pause and reflection period to stay with the October deadline, if the reflection period shows that that is what we can do—[Laughter.] I know that that is terribly Sir Humphrey and all that, but that is about the best I can say, because we are in the middle of the reflection period. I do take the point, but it would be wrong, given the circumstances that have prevailed since November and December and the labour market statistics that we saw yesterday, simply to stay on one horse because we established it last year, and to say to the providers, “There’s no opportunity at all to reflect on shifting sands and different circumstances.”