Sometime this autumn, the UK government is expected to publish its plan to “get Britain working again”.
The new administration certainly faces a real challenge linked to high rates of economic inactivity – 2.8 million people are estimated to be out of work as a result of long-term sickness, according to the government’s own figures.
In last month’s budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged an investment of £240 million to try new approaches to tackle what she described as “the root causes of ill-health related inactivity”. The white paper will give much more detail on what they are planning to do.
