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Welfare Reform Bill

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rix, for pointing out the error of my ways. None the less, in your Lordships' House the right mode of attack for most of us is to send such letters to the Minister and that is what I intend to do. What I quoted from was a précis of a précis of the original letter sent by our joint correspondent. However, I was not so much using it to illustrate the inadequacy of the training of Jobcentre Plus employees or the inadequacy of the amounts of money involved. I was trying to discover whether, in the context of this Bill, the word "work" included part-time work—for example, the 10 hours a week that the Minister spoke of earlier. In other words, could it be employed part-time work? I hope that the answer to the question is yes.