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Finance (No. 2) Bill

No, not at all. The hon. Gentleman does not understand how much money the industry has had to invest to make this scheme work. After the debate, I will happily show him the Government’s own documentation on how employers and employees should implement the scheme. It is very complicated and difficult; it is not straightforward. The Department for Work and Pensions had a significant sized team of officials working on how it should be implemented, but that scheme has now been abolished, when it was on the point of succeeding. As I said, the scheme was difficult and complicated. It did not work in 1999, and it was effectively rebooted in 2003 and relaunched in 2004. It is just beginning to have an impact now, which is what makes this precipitate decision so unfortunate. Evesham Technology will survive this body blow, but income from the scheme represents a quarter of its turnover. About £1.5 million a month will disappear overnight. I was going to make this point to the Paymaster General later, but I have been drawn into making it now. I am about to be nice to her, so I hope that she will listen. No? I will not hold my breath. I might come back to the point later when she can hear. I was about to express my great gratitude to her for the way in which she reacted so diligently—