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Written Question
Welfare State: Reform
Monday 18th June 2018

Asked by: Baroness Stroud (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what has been the cumulative saving made from welfare reform since 2010.

Answered by Baroness Buscombe

Figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility put cumulative savings from welfare reform from 2010 to the end of 2015/16 at £65 billion. In addition, in 2015, the Government announced plans for welfare reform which will deliver an extra £12 billion of annual savings; these have now been legislated for, and implementation has begun.