I thank the Minister for her reply. It’s not devolved, although we have long advocated in Plaid Cymru that job centres should be devolved, and the opportunity is missed in the Wales Bill to protect some of these jobs in Llanelli and elsewhere. I understand that the Llanelli back-office has been judged internally as one of the best-performing offices fairly recently. Therefore, there’s no question about the work that’s undertaken by people there. This is simply administrative convenience for DWP, which means that it is not taking into account its overall UK responsibilities to maintain local economies and to maintain a pattern of local working. I would have thought that the Welsh Government would be interested and concerned about that.

So, can I specifically ask you, Minister: although it’s not your devolved responsibility, has this Government—the Welsh Government—written yet to the DWP about this closure in Llanelli, but also the wider programme that affects many communities in Wales? Have you seen an equality impact assessment done, particularly as regards workers who may have mobility issues in travelling, as well as the impact assessments, of course, for the closure of local job centres over two and three miles away from claimants? You say that the proposal is that there shouldn’t be redundancies; however, there is no concrete guarantee that I can see from the DWP that there won’t be redundancies. Have you been given that guarantee, bearing in mind that the relocation could involve offices as far away as Pembroke Dock and Cardiff? That’s a very invidious position for somebody living in Llanelli or the Llanelli area to be put in. Finally, what further steps can you take to bring some pressure to bear on the DWP to take its wider social responsibility concerns into account, rather than this cut-and-slash approach that it has towards providing our public services?