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Work Programme (Wales)

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising that point, because I will be coming on to it, particularly in relation to the success or failure of the levers that have been made available to Wales over the past 10 or 11 years, particularly in relation to European aid. I will come on to the lack of progress against comparable regions—not only in the UK—and I will invite any Opposition Member to pick one unemployment statistic out of the monthly bulletin that shows Wales is performing better or has performed better than the rest of the UK over the past 10 years or so. There is silence, Mr Caton, which obviously demonstrates—if we look at the trended basis—that there is not one element where Wales has performed better over the past decade or more.