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Work Programme (Wales)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. I was looking at these figures. He must have been very disappointed in the performance of the Labour Government in his own constituency. I have been looking at the total claimant count level in Wrexham: in 1997, when the Labour Government came in, it was 1,465; by May 2010, when they left office, it had gone up to 1,740. I believe that was a period of unprecedented economic growth and success. I hope that he will make constructive suggestions rather than carp from the sidelines because, as I have said before in this Committee and I repeat, these matters are too important to play games with. They need to be studied together.