Rebellion Brewing as Labour’s Welfare Job Support Reforms Unfunded – Guido Fawkes

Rebellion Brewing as Labour’s Welfare Job Support Reforms Unfunded

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Labour has tried to calm backbench nerves over its benefits changes by promising £1 billion of extra funding per year by the end of the parliament to support the entry to work of health-related benefits claimants. Not that the money is coming from anywhere…

By 2028-29 only £400 million is penned in to be paid out in the Spending Review. Which implies it will rise by £600 million in the one subsequent year…

The DWP budget is set to rise at 0.4% per year over the next three years – it is meant to be dishing out that conciliatory support at the same time. There are no details on what the job support will look like and the OBR will need to be convinced that growth will be boosted enough to not require extra borrowing. This is high stakes – briefings over the weekend that up to a dozen ministers are set to resign over the welfare changes are heaping pressure on Downing Street…

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall is due to address the Parliamentary Labour Party at tonight’s Monday meeting. Around 80 backbenchers said last month they would vote against the bill. Backbenchers may have questions about the funding black hole here…