Member

In response to the noble Viscount’s comment about reform of health and disability benefits, we might have to disagree about the effectiveness of the previous Government’s attempts to get people into work and what the consequences were, but we can have that debate at more length when we publish the document. I am afraid that it is good revenge for all the times I have pressed him to tell me when reforms would happen. All I am able to say to him now is what he has often said to me in the past: “in due course”. In fact, I can be more specific: the Green Paper will come out in the spring, and it will contain details. We are looking to develop proposals specifically to reform the system of health and disability benefits, in order to promote and enable employment among as many people as possible.