Column 895 there by the seventh and we may realise some benefits by 2005 or 2006. There is a broad cross-party consensus here, but the Government have to bear some responsibility for the fact that it will be 2005 or 2006, on their own admission, before any improvement in IT systems helps us to prevent benefit fraud. The problems of organised crime described by the right hon. Member for Birkenhead occur in my own constituency. In my letter to the Secretary of State, I pointed out that areas such as mine, which have an unusually large transient population, are particularly prone to such difficulties.
Some people move to the holiday areas in winter, when accommodation is available, and then move on.
Others are attracted there in summer because there is casual work to be had in the tourism industry. There is a high turnover of people and that, of itself, allows for fraud and organised fraud. Believe it or not, there are those who organise transient workers. In areas such as mine, where that tends to be a problem, we need to apply more resources. For all those reasons, we must concentrate resources where such activity occurs, but the Bill will not achieve that.