Member

We hear a great deal about encouraging people to try work—that is not in the Bill, but it is in the regulations. That is laudable. I implore the Minister to think this through. If the Bill remains as written, it will discourage people from taking up that opportunity. To prevent that, we should endorse and embrace the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for York Central. A Government who claim to care about fairness cannot proceed like this.