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Welfare Reform Bill

Perhaps I may also throw in a question for my noble friend. When contact is made with a woman and, as a result of the situation she is exposed to, she asks for this discretion, how often does he expect the personal adviser to grant it? If it is to be granted informally, make it a right. That makes it simple. As a former local authority leader, he will understand the situation very well in his own borough. If he thinks that, as a result, almost every woman exposed to domestic violence would have the sympathetic response from the personal adviser that we would all like to see so that they would not be brought within the regime for three months or more, make it a right, an entitlement, and take one more bureaucratic pressure off not only the lone parent, but possibly off the hostel or refuge where she is staying where they are trying to help her get herself back on her own two feet.