Mr. Tim Duggan:

The hours are a considerable period in a working week. The idea is that people cannot work full time because they have this caring requirement. Again, although the Chair may disagree, 18.5 hours in the working week was considered to be a reasonable compromise between incentivising people to, on one hand, do some work and earn an income and, on the other, fulfil their caring responsibilities. That is the basis used for determining carer's allowance and that is the basis that will be used to determine access to the long-term caring credit as well.