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Welfare Reform Bill

Will the hon. Lady forgive me if I make a little more progress? As I have said, we really need to move through this quite quickly. Another reason why the status quo is not an option was highlighted only this week when community care grants were referenced in a ““Dispatches”” programme which showed that an ex-offender who had received a community care grant for resettlement had spent the money on drugs. We should all be concerned about the lack of checking on how money is used and we should look at how to improve the system. The hon. Member for Westminster North took a great deal of pain to talk about people who claim crisis loans having some degree of mobility and disengagement from the democratic system. I am not sure what evidence she has to support those assumptions, but we do not have that evidence to hand. The three elements of the discretionary scheme that I have talked about have very different and distinct client groups.