Welfare Reform Green Paper

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:32 pm on 24 January 2006.

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Photo of John Hutton John Hutton Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions, The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 3:32, 24 January 2006

The Green Paper sets out the broad direction of travel that we intend to take, and already we have had some discussions with city leaders about what the proposal would look like. I want to mobilise resources outside the Department in this matter. I am looking to people in the private and voluntary sectors, and in local government and beyond, to put together a new approach to delivering welfare-to-work services in our big cities. We shall explore the details with city leaders over the next few weeks and months, and I hope to let the first contracts next year and begin the new way of delivering welfare.

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Saint Swithins-Day
Posted on 25 Jan 2006 10:59 am (Report this annotation)

And so, once again, the Govt gets through a debate without being held to account because, now, everyone's in the same bit of the political compass or utterly toothless or cowardly. The Labour back-bench are not standing up for their supporters; the front bench (Blair/Brown) couldn't even be bothered to turn up; the Lib Dems are too busy drinking and shagging and the Tories are wondering how they can possibly get to the right of Labour without actually breaking into a goose-step. And these people now hold millions of people's lives in their hands. Frankly, I pray for death.