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Welfare Reform Bill

My Lords, there is a distinction between local assessment and local payment. We discussed some of these issues on a previous amendment. Will the Minister confirm that you could have local assessment using existing local authority staff on a face-to-face basis so that they can deal with issues, such as concealed tenancies, which can only be known face to face? Given the ATLAS arrangements, that does not preclude the information being fed through to a universal credit payment in due course.