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I am sure that the new agency is learning. For example, take-up rates will be crucial, because it is a new benefit with a new name and a new agency to claim it from.
It is worth going back slightly and thinking about the wide range of policy areas that will overlap with the devolved settlement. At its latest count, the Cabinet Office got to 156 overlapping areas.
We spent the summer asking when that was going to happen and how we were going to get it, because we needed it to retain staff and to attract new staff, at a time when Aldi is paying £13.40 an hour for a new entry.
We will build on our engagement , with developers’ in line with the principle of the New Deal for Business, throughout the Bill’s passage through Parliament and in consulting on secondary legislation required.