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PA mediaSir Kire Stmper has said that his welfare reforms have attacked the “correct balance” after giving concessions to their own backbenth MPs.
With a view to bringing down the welfare bill, the initial schemes of the government would have made people difficult to claim personal freedom payment (PIP), which is the benefit given to 3.7 million people with long -term physical or mental health conditions.
However, facing the growing rebellion from Labor MPs and a possible defeat in the Commons, the government announced that strict criteria would only apply to new contenders.
“We have talked to colleagues who have represented healthy, resulting in a package that I think will work,” he said.
As part of its climb, the government has reversed its plans to free the health related to the health of the universal credit. Payments will now increase to inflation for existing recipients.
Minister will also review the PIP evaluation process with input from disability organizations.
Originally a £ 1BN support package will be tracked to the people set for 2029.
Talking to broadcasters, Sir Keir said: “We need to get it correctly, so we are talking to colleagues and discussing a creative.
“Now we have reached a package that distributes on principles with some adjustment and this is the correct improvement and I am really happy now we are able to take it forward.”
The government faced dissatisfaction with about 120 of its own MPs on changes.
While the rebels told the BBC that their allies were happy with the concessions, some labor MPs have said that they will still vote against the proposals.
The size of that rebellion is not yet clear, although it is believed that some 50 labor MPs can still vote against the bill, and there will be many restraints.
Along with other opposition parties to defeat the government – 83 labor backbenchers – along with it.
Dame Meg Hilier, who led the efforts to block the plans, reported that the BBC ministers had “reacted measures”, and she would be supporting the government.
Fellow Labor MP Debbie Abraham, who presided over the work and pension committee, told the BBC that the concessions are “a good start” but still had concerns about the new contenders.
He said: “We feel that the lesson was learned, and I am sure they will learn in the weekend.
“There is damage, people have died in previous changes in eligibility criteria. It would not be right for me to do nothing, only to overcome the inconvenience to the Prime Minister.
“It was to be picked up and we did it quietly and professionally, as we could, using the lever near the government and near Parliament, and we know that the message has been heard.”
Many MPs have also said that they believe that changes go far enough.
For some people, they focus on cuts that ministers want to do for disability benefits.
For others, this row is the latest example of frustrations about the alleged decrease of the involvement between numbers 10 and backbenchers, which are seen out of the side.
Another labor MP, who is still planning to vote against the government, stated that some rebels are being seen as “more important than others”, which he said “is a big problem in itself”.
Some backbench labor MPs are worried that new proposals will behave differently with equal conditions, depending on whether they are existing or new contenders.
The BBC has been told that some have sought legal advice whether the construction of the “two-tier” system will be allowed.
The Prime Minister’s spokesperson refused to say whether the government had sought equal legal advice, but insisted that it was not uncommon for different benefits to set separate sets of rules.
The government originally expected to save £ 5BN in a year by 2030 with its universal credit and personal freedom payment bill, which was aimed at slowing the growth in claimants.
The benefits related to the health of the working-age are estimated to spend an additional £ 30BN without improvements by 2029.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies and Resolution Foundation Think Tank has estimated that the government’s U-turn can be £ 3BN, which means that Chancellor Rachel Reves will either have to increase taxes, spend somewhere else or borrow more if he has to meet his own self-spending rules.
The PM’s spokesman said that “the changes would be completely funded, there will be no permanent growth to borrow”, but did not rule out a temporary growth.
Abdi Mohammed welcomed the government’s concessions from the Disability Charity Scope, but said that measures should be stopped until the review in the PIP assessment was over.
For North Somerset Sadiq al-Hasan, the Labor MP said that he was accepting the agreement, telling the BBC world that he believed that the promised review would make the PIP scoring system “much better”.
He said, “Some of my colleagues are going to happen, who want to push it for destruction, but I firmly believe that you can’t always get everything you want,” he said.
However, talking at the same program, Labor MP for CAT Excel – Storbridge said that the government offered “very little, it was too late”.
Orthodox leader Kemi Badenoch said the concessions were “the worst in all the world”.
He accused the government of “floundering”, saying: “I don’t see how they promise that they are going to be able to give anything, if they can do nothing as basic as they reduce the increase in spending.”
Tim Faran of Liberal Democrat said that under new schemes “If you currently have Parkinson’s or MS -like conditions you will get support for yourself to wash and cook – but someone diagnosed next year gets nothing.”
“This is just frightening.”
Richard Tice, deputy leader of the Reform UK, said: “The welfare bill should be cut before excluding control, but the stammers are playing party politics with public finance.”
The Green Party stated that the change would “create an unjust two-level profit system”.
