Anas Sarwar has denied that Labour’s decision to slash £5 billion a year from the welfare budget amounts to cuts. The ...

The Government spent £296.3 billion on welfare in 2023/24, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). This is ...

Social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told the Commons that he is ‘sad’ about the worries people have expressed.

Some Labour backbenchers are “jumping to conclusions” about expected reforms to the welfare system before the plans are confirmed, a Treasury minister has suggested. Emma Reynolds, the economic ...

By Stephen Castle Reporting from London Britain’s center-left government outlined plans on Tuesday to curb rising welfare costs as it attempts to juggle a difficult set of competing objectives ...