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The TelegraphJanuary 8, 20261h 5min3,052 views
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- 🎯 Helen Whately, Conservative MP, discusses the challenge of identifying welfare savings and the moral imperative to move people from benefits into work.
- 📈 Current figures show around 10 million working-age people are economically inactive, with 6.5 million on out-of-work benefits, leading to significant welfare spending.
- ⚠️ Spending on sickness benefits alone is projected to reach nearly £100 billion annually by the end of the decade, a figure deemed unsustainable.
- 💡 Whately highlights the issue of a
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