Member

I know that the Government know this—I have listened to both debates on welfare reforms and heard the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, say very similar things. If the Government are successful in encouraging those young people who are wasting their potential to get a job, those young people will then turn up at work to find that, on day 1, they can go back on the sick. Having got them off the sick, the Government would then be putting them in a position where they can go on the sick again. That is not joined-up thinking. Can the Minister comment on some of the unintended cultural consequences of something that looks like a good idea but might be disastrous?