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HANSARDWelfare ReformThe PIP review is not driven by an objective of making savings; it is about making sure that this vital benefit is fair and fit for the future. As is the case now, people can…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI absolutely believe that we have to reset the system. We have to make sure that everybody who can work gets the opportunity to do so and the support they need. That is precisely…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI fundamentally disagree with the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have great respect. I actually think that universal credit sometimes locked people out of work, because they had…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformBecause we have to begin to reform the welfare state, to help those who can work to do so, to protect those who cannot and to begin to put our welfare state on a more sustainable…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI thank my hon. Friend for her question. As part of the process of the Green Paper we are establishing a youth panel to ensure that young people’s voices are heard in our future…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI fundamentally disagree with the hon. Gentleman’s proposition. Our changes are rooted in the clear principles that those who can work should work and need the support to do so,…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformLabour’s historic mission is to help more people who can work into good jobs in every part of the land. That is not only because we believe that is key to improving living…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point, which is precisely what we want to look at in the PIP review, because it does not take into account fluctuating conditions. That is…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI agree with my hon. Friend’s comments about the state of the economy. As I said in my statement, the four-point minimum will now not relate to existing claimants. It will come in…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformWe are co-producing this review, and it may result in changes that require primary or secondary legislation or other action, and I do not want to pre-empt that. Let me just bring…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformMany hon. Members have understandably raised concerns because their constituents who are on PIP, right here and now, are extremely anxious, even though if they are still on PIP at…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformThe hon. Lady raises a really important point. Access to work is there precisely to support people who have needs over and above the legal requirement on employers to make…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI simply say to my hon. Friend, who knows that I have deep respect for her, that I would not be making any changes that I believed were incompatible with the law.30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformWe are not setting out the precise detail of how co-production works; I think that would go against the very essence of it. We are already in discussion with disabled people and…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformWe will absolutely ensure that the views and voices of disabled people right across the country, including in the north-east, are fully involved in our process of co-production.…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformBecause PIP is not an in-work benefit. [ Official Report , 16 July 2025; Vol. 771, c. 4WC.] (Correction)30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformFor new claimants, it is because we believe that we need to begin to focus this vital disability benefit on those with higher needs. I am deeply concerned that a doubling in the…30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformThat is exactly what we committed to in our Green Paper.30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI am very proud of our Prime Minister, who changed our party so that we can change our country, and the mandate can be seen by the number of MPs on the Benches behind me.30 Jun 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformI know that my hon. Friend has worked extremely hard on all of those issues. That question was raised previously by another colleague, and the answer is that there will be two…30 Jun 2025