Here is the Sunday Telegraph leak on what will be in the Queen's Speech on welfare reform:

Welfare Reform Bill (DWP).

The key piece of legislation for Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary. This will be "sold" as helping people back into work, partly by scrapping all existing programmes and establishing a single welfare-to-work regime.

However it will also increase sanctions on those who refuse, including reassessing all Incapacity Benefit claimants for "readiness to work" – with the threat of being moved on to Jobseeker's Allowance.

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It sounds from this as though the Duncan Smith approach to welfare reform will be dominant in the immediate programme. See previous entries on an article he wrote and the publication he was responsible for last year. The same publication is referred to here, too.

Full Sunday Telegraph article here.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Reform

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