Ms Anne Vaughan:

I will ask Mr. McKeon to comment on the detail of the JobBridge programme because he is involved in the steering group.

We see JobBridge as innovative, as a work in progress. The Indecon report points to how we should change it and be flexible. Our focus is on people on the live register; the Government is very clear about that. Its purpose is to give people on the live register the best chance. In terms of social welfare arrangements, it is a new scheme, it is innovative and it is working well. We were under pressure to review and extend it to other groups and we have done that. We investigate issues at the edges with regard to displacement, abuse, etc. The changes we have made have arisen primarily as a result of the Indecon report. We are open to keeping it and other arrangements under review but it is certainly the way we want to proceed and we see it as one of our very good schemes. We have about 5,000-----