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Finance (No. 2) Bill

: I thank my hon. Friend for giving way after being so generous in giving way earlier, unlike the Paymaster General. It was clear that the right hon. Lady wanted to establish her case for the abolition of the HCI. The only case that I heard her make was against the Government—a case against abolishing the HCI and a case against the Bill. It seems to me that if there is a better way of approaching the provision of information technology to workers at home, surely that better approach should be described and implemented before the existing scheme is removed. It seems that we are in a bizarre situation when a scheme is being removed that has clearly been successful, but there is nothing to replace it.