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Employment

I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement today, but does he agree that it is as important to keep people in work as it is to get them off benefits and back into work? In respect of the Government's response to Dame Carol Black, 300,000 people a year move from work to incapacity benefit, so is it not time that we dealt with the anomalies and inefficiencies of statutory sick pay? Should we not address that as an issue in the first six months of sickness, rather than wait until 12 or 18 months down the line?