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Welfare Reform Bill

The fact that a particular way of expressing the law occurs in other social security legislation is often taken by Ministers as a good reason not to change it, but life moves on. Goodness knows, life in Parliament moves on, as we have seen over the past three or four months, culminating in the past week. The fact that "matters" and "circumstances" are distinguished in earlier legislation does not matter to me very much; after all, you cannot have matters without circumstances pertaining to those matters—with which thought I shall leave the Committee and beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 10 withdrawn.