Member

My noble friend Lady O’Grady challenged the DWP to come up with a more comprehensive formula. I assure her that this has been looked at in detail— I know that she knows this, because we discussed it when we met, and the department has produced a fact sheet to support this—that it is more complicated than we would like to think. The truth is that it has to be a scheme that is simple enough to be easily implemented by employers. I hear what she says and I wish it were that simple but, unfortunately, it is not.