The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Mr Iain Duncan Smith)
We are at a critical point, with 5 million people on out-of-work benefits, 2 million working-age people claiming incapacity benefit, of whom 900,000—just under 1 million—have been claiming for an entire decade, and a system that has left Britain with the highest rate of jobless households in Europe.
[Official Report, 11 October 2010, Vol. 516, c. 34.]
Letter of correction from Mr Duncan Smith:
An error has been identified in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph of the oral statement of 11 October.
The correct sentence should have been:
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Mr Iain Duncan Smith)
We are at a critical point, with 5 million people on out-of-work benefits, 2 million working-age people claiming incapacity benefit, of whom 900,000—just under 1 million—have been claiming for an entire decade, and a system that has left Britain with one of the highest rates of jobless households in Europe's major economies.