Jobs and the Unemployed

Part of Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day] – in the House of Commons at 1:31 pm on 7 July 2010.

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Photo of Yvette Cooper Yvette Cooper Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1:31, 7 July 2010

We were clear that the best way to cut welfare spending was to get more people into work. The very fact of getting people into jobs was cutting £15 billion from welfare bills over the next few years. That is substantially more of an impact than the right hon. Gentleman could possibly have by cheese-paring bits from employment programmes that end up putting more people on the dole and pushing up the bills for unemployment. That, in the end, is the right hon. Gentleman's problem.