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Welfare Reform Bill

Before I go any further, I welcome the noble Lord, Lord Freud, to our deliberations, who I think is the architect of the whole policy, if not the actual Bill. It is very good to see him here. I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. I became very excited for a time given that four noble Lords were enthusiastically supporting my proposal. I thought that I might have scored a bullseye. However, the noble Lord, Lord Taylor, rained on my parade a little and the Minister said that there was already a plan for a charter of standards, as I believe it is called. The Grand Committee would be very interested in looking at that. It sounds as if it could be what we are talking about. I suppose that it would be given to all claimants from the beginning of their claim.