Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 23 April 2007.
Jim Murphy
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Work)
2:30,
23 April 2007
The figures released will also show, of course, that the number of people on jobseeker's allowance fell last month—the seventh fall over the past eight months—that the number of people on incapacity benefit is the lowest that it has been for six years, and that the number of lone parents on income support has decreased. Alongside the fall in the number of people claiming each and every one of those benefits, a record number of people are in work—a record of which the Government are rightly proud.