Former Labour Minister for Housing, John Healey, has written an open letter to Iain Duncan Smith, urging him to “become the loud Tory voice for housing”. Healey argues that to enable people to move into work, Iain Duncan Smith must champion new housing as part of his policies.
Iain Duncan Smith the Work and Pensions Secretary, has outlinedproposals to make the workforce “more mobile” in the Sunday Telegraph. He has revealedthat ministers were drawing up plans to encourage jobless people living in council houses,to move from areas of high unemployment to areas where more jobs are available.
Iain Duncan Smith is due to announce the end of £2bn of welfare-to-work contracts and plans to move to a single “work programme” are due to be revealed today, writes Nick Timmins in the Financial Times. According to the paper, officials are working out how transitional support will be provided for jobseekers whilst contracts are renegotiated and looking at the legal implications of ending contracts early.
Now Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what can we expect from Iain Duncan Smith? Inclusion Policy Officer, Rosanna Singler, attempts to predict his actions over the next few years by looking at the policies and speeches he made prior to his appointment.
