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(Clauses 1, 4, 8, 189 and 209, Schedules 1, 23 and 33, and new Clauses and new Schedules relating to value added tax)

I will, but before I do, let me say in response to that intervention that there are many pensioners in my constituency who are on very low incomes. They are suffering considerably at the moment. Most of them do not have incomes anywhere close to the current allowance. What we are trying to do—in improving their lot through the triple lock guarantee, as well as protecting the pension credit, the winter fuel payments, the cold weather payments and the free TV licences—is protect the benefits of those who are least able to look after themselves. My hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) is right in another sense. It is not just today's vulnerable pensioners whom we must look after and seek to help, but the vulnerable pensioners in 20 and 30 years' time. If we do not make changes now and try to protect the state's income to some degree, we will not be in a position even to afford the benefits and pensions that we promise people now, let alone to anything like that degree in 20 or 30 years' time, and that will be a problem for both parties.