What do Tories and Labour say about benefits?

You’re saying that mental health should be addressed but with treatment, not with allowing you to stay out of work for a long term. So I want us to have a grown up sensible conversation about a benefit called PIP that has not been reviewed in over a decade. And I want to ask the question, is it fit for purpose given the world that we’re in today in which mental health issues sadly present more of an issue than they did a decade ago. So I think we’ve really got to be asking questions about how we target that benefit. Is it right, for example, that those that have long term progressive conditions that are sadly not going to get any better are still asked to go through reassessments and all the bureaucracy and jumping through hoops that that involves? But to the point that you mentioned absolutely we should be thinking about whether. Straight cash transfer benefits of the answer for everybody or whether some at least might benefit from treatment that will help their condition and in many cases where they’re if they’re out of work, help get them into work. Because what we know about work is all the evidence shows this will is that it’s good for our mental health. So we are now going to have a very grown up compensation over the next 12 weeks. I’m going to come forward with proposals after that. Do you think it is right to look again at some of those laws and rules particularly as it relates to mental health or not? People that can work should work, but we’ve seen a huge collapse in support for mental ill health, which is why today Labour have set out a plan to tackle and prevent mental ill health. So under Labour we would put in place 8500 new specialist mental health workers. We’d make sure that there is a mental health support worker in every school supporting young people so they don’t go into adulthood with mental health problems as well as setting up mental health community. Hubs with Open Access in communities, so focusing on the prevention of mental ill health. So the government have made these statements, but actually they’ve not got a plan to tackle mental ill health in in our in our communities.