<p>Welfare Reform</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 3:01 pm on 14 September 2016.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 3:01, 14 September 2016

Following the introduction of recommendations in their ‘Dynamic Benefits: Towards welfare that works’ report, the Centre for Social Justice has pointed out that more people are employed than ever before, less people are claiming benefits and UK unemployment is at a record low of 4.9 per cent. Of course, we know Wales has a good record and story on that. However, Wales’s economic inactivity rate for working-age people not in employment is still almost 3 per cent higher than for the UK. What consideration, therefore, will you give to doing things differently and to considering what might work elsewhere—Scotland, England or beyond—in order to close that gap?