Member

I pause momentarily to look the noble Baroness, Lady Finn, straight in the eye and say that this is in stark contrast to the previous iteration of the Bill under the previous Government, in which every single benefit was in scope from the outset, including the state pension, which was explicitly included. When I engaged in conversation to find out which benefits were included, it was every single benefit mentioned in social security legislation, including some which probably had not been used in years and some that might never be used again.