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“He confirmed the reviews by former health secretary Alan Milburn into the million young people not in education, employment or training (Neet), and by welfare minister Sir Stephen Timms into disability benefits, will report back next month.”

“Britain's benefits bill is set to soar by £5.5billion next year - significantly more than forecast - as Andy Burnham rejects 'crude' cuts to welfare spending.”

“'We're already restoring opportunity for young people through our £2.5billion youth employment package, investing record funding into employment support to help disabled people and those with long-term health conditions and rebalancing the standard and…”

“'We need to redistribute money from the welfare system to more employment support if we are going to end the NEET crisis.' Mr Milburn also called for employment, mental health and benefits support to be more integrated.”

“So I'm really focusing this on them.’ Kemi Badenoch pledged to unpick tax hikes blamed for fuelling youth unemployment Employers have blamed a triple whammy of changes under Labour for making it less attractive to employ young people.”

“Finally, they want ministers to stop Universal Credit (UC) for young people, and instead provide a new youth allowance.”