Employment: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the funding required for employment support to increase employment income in line with changes to welfare payments set out in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The government has announced an additional £1.9 billion in funding for employment-related support between 2026/27 and 2029/30, for disabled people and those with health conditions. This will ensure that support is available from next year as benefit changes come in, and can be offered to anyone affected by those changes.
The Office for Budget Responsibility has stated that it intends to assess the labour supply impacts of the Green Paper measures in its Autumn forecasts, and we will develop more detailed analysis in due course to inform those estimates.
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