The hon. Gentleman has directed his Question to the "wage pause". I take it that his supplementary question is directed to the operation of the wage stop.

In response to the latter part of his supplementary question, may I remind the hon. Gentleman that in individual cases, which on rare occasions come to us, we try to operate the rule as humanely as possible. We have a lot of questions on this topic put to us, with well rehearsed arguments, but very few individual cases are brought to our attention.