Speeches by Reeves.

“We can send you details of different people that we have met.”

“We can also send you details of who the EST has met.”

“It is right that we did not announce these changes to come in straightaway. People on personal independence payments will not lose them—if they do lose them—until they have had their next assessment. We are not saying, “The last time you had an assessment, you didn’t get four points in one category, so you are going to…”

“We are devising the package at the moment, so we have not finalised what that package looks like. We are learning from packages in the past that have particularly helped people with sickness and disability challenges into work. We are also looking at the international evidence so that we can bring in the best package p…”

“Let me be a bit clearer about how the process works with the OBR. We do not just say, “We are thinking of doing this. Can you score it and cost it for us?” We obviously do that work as a Government as well. What the OBR are able to provide is an independent lens through which they see the policy. That is why we refer t…”

“The universal credit reforms, in the sense that you would expect that someone who is severely disabled would meet a four-point assessment—it depends how you define it—and would not lose their PIP following the introduction of a tighter gateway. It is focused on supporting those who might otherwise lose some of the univ…”

“When we publish the accessible version, we will then start the consultation. It is important that we have the accessible version before the consultation starts. The consultation will kick off at that stage, and then we will announce the timeline.”

“That is a Green Paper, so it is being consulted on. Once we have done the consultation and announced what we are doing, we will be able to assess that.”

“We think this is money well spent. I am very pleased to put money into this, because it can improve people’s lives and have a net positive for taxpayers as well. It is a good scheme, and as Louise Tinsley has said, it is on top of the £240 million we announced in the Budget for these trailblazers. The “Get Britain Work…”

“We have been in government for nine months, so since the election we have been working on the sorts of reforms that we need, and we set them out a couple of weeks ago.”

“We have been working on these for quite some time.”

“I am absolutely confident that the system we inherited is not working and has to be reformed. I think everybody agrees that the current system is not working. There is plenty of evidence from past programmes that we can do more to support people into work. If you look at the international evidence, you do not see such …”

“Yes, that is what they are going to provide, but this is not the only thing that we are doing. This £1 billion back-to-work package is just one of a number of measures that we are doing to help people into work—apprenticeships, which we have already had a conversation about, the increases in the national minimum wage a…”

“Yes. This is not the only thing that we are doing, remember. We are beginning to roll out the free breakfast clubs—”

“I do not want to pre-empt the work that is now going to take place in assessing that, but I am confident that those impact assessments do not reflect what will happen, because it is inconceivable that you put £1 billion into targeted, personalised support and it makes no difference. In fact, all the evidence, under the…”

“We know that there are hundreds of thousands of people with a disability who want to work, and there are many people with disabilities who already do work. We want to give them more support, whether that is adjustments in the workplace or training, for more of them to fulfil their potential. I do not want to write peop…”

“The point of our reforms is that we want to support those people with the most severe health and disability needs, which is why, in the Green Paper that we published alongside the Secretary of State’s statement, we are consulting on additional support for those with the most severe needs. The changes only kick in when …”

“Thank you, Chair, and thank you for your question, Mr Dean. We think that about 17% of people who are on personal independence payments are also in work. I cannot tell you what proportion of the 800,000 that you referred to are in work. The OBR have committed to work over the summer to look at the package that we annou…”

“Yes.”

“First of all, the important work that Charlie Mayfield is doing is about helping to keep people in the labour market, rather than supporting people who are not in the labour market, so those things are a bit different. Charlie Mayfield is doing a really important piece of work for us, and we know that the best thing th…”