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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

I am glad that the Minister said that. Of course, in a perfect world there would be no people, so there would be no need for climate change Bills or anything like that, and certainly no need for this Bill. However, we do not live in a perfect world. The latest available tax year information is all well and good, but by definition—as the Minister said under a previous amendment—it is always going to be at least slightly and possibly very out of date by the time that it is needed to be applied for the CMEC calculation. That is imperfect, but I admit that I cannot see any better way of doing it. It is rough justice, if you like. In some of my meetings with my honourable friends down the corridor, I have discussed this at some length and persuaded them that there is no better way. They have much better sources of advice on these matters than I do up here, but even with that they have not come up with a suggestion that is any better. I should have been able to pick it up through my reading, but I was alarmed to hear that there were 160,000 applications for variations a month. I find that an absolutely staggering figure when the total number of cases is, from memory, about 1.5 million a month. So it is a very large percentage indeed. I was glad to hear that when someone moves from unemployment to work there is an immediate reassessment. What I did not hear was what happens the other way round—when someone moves from work to unemployment. How speedy is the assessment then?