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Welfare Reform Bill

I support my noble friend on that. There is a real problem in defining full-time education. There are universities where the formal contact hours amount to only four or six hours a week but the home study associated with them can be anything from four to 40 hours. At the same time, the students may be working 10, 20 or 30 hours a week in order to finance their way through university. My noble friend is right that to put that in the Bill would not be helpful because it would be necessary to define ““full-time education””, so it would merely postpone the definition. Guidance about what is training, education or part of a therapeutic work agenda and the advice of the advisers is a more appropriate way forward.