I am sure that the Minister has done many wonderful things in his life, but I was particularly interested in his work as the director of Re-Solv. All of us have different experiences and all of us know that things go wrong if work is not co-ordinated. We all talk about demanding co-ordination, but nothing ever seems to get done and how we then have to have another Act of Parliament to cure it.

Finally, I ask the Minister, when he is considering the amendments in the previous group that he said he would reflect on—amendments Nos. 167 and 105—to find time to read a book entitled “Wasted” by Mark Johnson. He may well have read it already. It is clearly one man’s story, but it a useful encyclopaedia of information about what happens to someone who falls into the grips of addiction or substance abuse as a result of his family not providing the support to him as a child that might have been necessary. He became disaffected with education and with what I loosely call “normal life”. He went right to the bottom and it was very difficult for him to rescue himself or allow himself to be rescued by others.

“Wasted” is about someone affected by class A drug abuse and alcohol. Its author would use anything to get him away, in his head, from where he was—that is to say, away from the street door or pavement in the west end—and drugs were the travel system he used to get himself away. He did not think that he was an addict. He knew that he was in control of his drug habit, which was costing hundreds of pounds a day. He stole money or stole goods to sell to raise the money. There are some big issues in this book that are perhaps hidden by the ordinariness of the black print of these pages.

I urge the Minister and his colleagues to read “Wasted”. The right hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth seems to have read it, but I urge other Committee members who have not done so to read it, because it demonstrates the seriousness and the huge nature of the problem that we are all trying to get to grips with.