Part of Welfare Reform Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 17 May 2011.
My constituency of Dover is less likely to be directly affected, but my constituents rail at me, asking why people should earn more on benefits than they do when they are in work. Surely, it is right in principle that the effective earnings equivalent of £35,000 should be a cap, to deal with the level of public concern that there is.