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HANSARDUnemployment LevelsWe are bearing down on unemployment, not least through the sterling work of our JCP work coaches, as well as through the back to work plan that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor…13 May 2024HANSARDUnemployment LevelsAs we have set out, there is a clear and detailed back to work plan, which is working for the reasons that I have given. If the hon. Lady has examples of specific employers under…13 May 2024HANSARDUnemployment LevelsI thank my hon. Friend for the extraordinary work that he does locally to support people into work. He asks what support there is for those with travel challenges. The flexible…13 May 2024HANSARDUnemployment LevelsWe do a huge amount with employers both at national level and at local jobcentres. If my hon. Friend has not already engaged with his local jobcentre staff, I strongly recommend…13 May 2024HANSARDUnemployment LevelsI have already set out that we have universal credit, as the hon. Lady identified, as well as WorkWell and universal support to address exactly the individuals to whom she…13 May 2024HANSARDUnemployment LevelsOur record speaks for itself: 4 million more people in work since 2010. Unemployment has halved since the last Labour Government, on the hon. Lady’s watch. Youth unemployment has…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I first extend my best wishes to my opposite number the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Leicester West (Liz Kendall), and wish her a speedy recovery? Since my…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right. The scheme is being rolled out in Greater Manchester, in parts of London, in Cambridgeshire and all the way to the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall.…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend is entirely right to raise that point: in the absence of this Government, the work plan will be no more. The problem is that we do not know exactly what will…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend is, as always, absolutely right. We must have a system that targets the most vulnerable in society, and it must also be fair to the taxpayer, because that is…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have already replied to questions on that matter in this session. To reiterate, we are looking extremely carefully at what is a very complex report. It took the ombudsman five…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis scaremongering about the state pension and the £46 billion on the back of what is an aspiration through time—maybe more than one Parliament—to abolish national insurance is…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for her pertinent question. That is exactly why we are piloting these measures, and we want to make sure that we get it right. I am interested in her…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe approach we are taking with our call for evidence is to try to find a system in which the fit note approach is improved, and part of that must mean getting treatment to people…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt will intervene at a very early stage of the health journey for those falling out of work and going into long-term sickness and disability benefits. We want to stop that journey…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is important that all Government policies are properly costed and that their cost to the taxpayer and the economy are taken into account. I have given the House an assurance…13 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the hon. Gentleman will know, the Northern Ireland Executive are at liberty to make their own arrangements on most of the benefits for which the Department for Work and…13 May 2024HANSARDWelfare FraudPublic support for our welfare system relies on there being confidence that taxpayers’ money goes to those who need it, rather than into the hands of criminals. That is why we…13 May 2024HANSARDImproving the Collection and Transfer of Child Maintenance Payments: Public ConsultationToday, the Government will publish a child maintenance consultation: improving the collection and transfer of maintenance payments. Families play a fundamental role in the success…08 May 2024HANSARDWorkWellToday, with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, we are announcing the 15 pilot sites that will deliver WorkWell services. Good work is good for…07 May 2024