This is the parliamentary question time for questions to the Welfare & Social Affairs Secretary.

Members of the Commons may question the Welfare & Social Affairs Secretary on any issue relating to his department. Each member is limited to one question per week.

This House recognises Lord Davies as the Welfare & Social Affairs Secretary, and requests that he answers all questions posed to him.

This House recognises Lord Wallace Buttersworth as the Shadow Welfare & Social Affairs Secretary, and as such grants him the right to ask six questions per week.

The government may only be asked to answer one question at a time - no new questions may be submitted until the previous one has been answered. If the government does not answer, action may be taken by the speaker of the commons.

I therefore open this session with the following question:

Will the Welfare & Social Affairs Secretary please tell us of his department's aims for this session of parliament?