I do not doubt that the process of welfare reform has been difficult and unsettling, but the UK Government can legitimately claim to have been clear about the objectives of reform and to have shown a willingness to listen and to adapt where necessary, including in relation to the needs of cancer sufferers and those living in residential care and in the application of the spare room levy. That approach will need to continue, but the UK Government does not seek to shy away from the need for radical reform—and that need for reform is something that is accepted by most independent experts and all political parties, including, it would seem, the SNP.