Universal Credit

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville Excerpts

Wednesday 30th July 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Freud]

I am always very pleased to provide the noble Lord, Lord McAvoy, with reading material, and I shall do so in this case. However, I must make the point that we have gone through this question in some detail both in the other place and here. I have explained here that we have got the strategic outline business case plans approved, and we are expecting that the actual full strategic outline business case will be approved shortly.

[Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (Con)]

My Lords, does my noble friend accept that some of us feel that, as Ministers go, he is as transparent and open as anyone could be, and that he has the virtue of being comprehensible as well?

[Lord Freud]

I blush with pleasure.