Schedule 3
Welfare Reform Bill
6:00 pm
John Howell (Henley, Conservative)
I have one question relating to schedule 3 which the Minister may be able to answer. In schedule 3, paragraph 2, you introduce schedule A1 to the Jobseekers Act 1995. In paragraph 2, you establish a good principle in relation to those benefit claimants who are looking for, or having to go through an assessment—that this should only be done where there is a reasonable view that they are drug abusers. However, when we come to the first part of that—undertaking the initial questions—it is clear from page 48, paragraph 65 of the regulation book you provided this morning that you are already making a distinction between JSA claimants—