Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to the Public Accounts Committee’s report on the Work Programme, said:

“The Government’s decision to put all unemployed people through the same ‘one size fits all’ programme has clearly failed. This report is further evidence that the Government’s Work Programme is failing to give disabled people the chance to work and get on in life. Just one in 20 disabled people on the Work Programme actually get a job.

“We need to get the benefit bill down, so a Labour government will bring in a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee and reform the Work Programme to bring in a dedicated Work Support programme to give disabled people and job seekers the chance to get off benefits and into work.”

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