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Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 October 2025

Debate

Jobs Market

Contribution

My Lords, there are woeful and worrying figures showing that the number of working-age people signing off work for sickness benefits has gone up from 2,000 to 5,000 per day—per day—with a direct negative impact on employment. What are the Government going to do now, before the publication of the Timms review? I remind the House that we have a whole year to wait until then, which will be one of inaction, inactivity and spiralling costs, will it not?

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