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Unemployment in the UK

It is similar. We have a different approach because we have a different legal system but the hon. Gentleman is welcome to read the Enterprise Act 2002 and raise it with Ministers. In conclusion, the thing we should be doing in the House is protecting people in the short term and helping them for the long term. Instead of scoring partisan points and trying to make rather eccentric use of the figures, the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell should be focusing on what is right for people. We are continuing to help people, as we have done, and in addition we are making sure that people have proper protection for their mortgages—again improving something his Government left undone. We are making sure that the rapid reaction force is available to people around the country. Most of all we are learning those three lessons: not to fiddle the figures, not to consign people to inactive benefits and, still less, not to slacken the pace on welfare reform. I hope that that is the approach he will be taking.