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Defence Minister Luke Pollard says the government wants to "bring down the welfare bill" and stop "paying for failure" by using support to get a million people into work ahead of Alan Milburn's review next week. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00So Alan Milburn will publish his recommendations next week, and it's important that we see them in the round.
00:06I don't want to write off the million people, the million young people who are not in employment, educational training
00:13currently.
00:14So I do want to see us. How can we use more support to help them get into work?
00:20And that needs to be seen in the round.
00:22So the proposals that Alan Milburn will make need to be taken as a whole, because I want to see
00:27us bring down the welfare bill.
00:29I want to see more opportunities for young people in particular to get them into the workforce and where additional
00:34help is needed.
00:36I think Alan Milburn will be making strong recommendations about how we use more of that welfare money to get
00:42people into work rather than to paying for failure, which is what we're seeing at the moment.

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