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Marie Rimmer Excerpts

Tuesday 29th November 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Philip Hammond]

Yes, demographic trends are of course at the heart of our considerations when budgets are allocated.

[Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston) (Lab)]

With just one in six people with autism in employment, would it not have been better to invest in improving the Work and Health programme, rather than cutting it, to assist people to gain employment and thereby save on benefits? They want to work.

[Mr Gauke]

The reforms that we have announced will enable us to spend £330 million on practical support to ensure that people in the work-related activity group can work. May I point out that, over the past three years, the number of disabled people in employment has increased by nearly 600,000?