Andy Burnham Pledges to ‘Get Serious’ on Welfare Bill

Parents to get benefits top-up to encourage their children into apprenticeships

Welfare spending is an issue now seen as totemic in Britain, so what can Burnham do to fix it?

Andy Burnham 'major intervention' as DWP welfare bill announcement on Tuesday

Andy Burnham is set to make his first "major intervention" into welfare on Tuesday

Andy Burnham to make first major DWP welfare bill announcement on Tuesday

Burnham is set to lay out his intentions to cut the welfare bill amid concern over its soaring coast.

Andy Burnham pledges to ‘get serious’ on welfare bill

Attempts by former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer to slash welfare spending by £5 billion last year led to a U-turn in the face of a major backbench rebellion

Andy Burnham signals welfare cuts back on the table despite previous Labour rebellion

ANDY Burnham has signalled he is looking to slash UK Government spending on welfare, in a move likely to damage his standing with Labour's…

Burnham vows to ‘get serious’ about slashing welfare bill

Andy Burnham has vowed that he will “get serious” about slashing the welfare bill, as the Prime Minister hunts savings to boost defence spending.  “We’ve got to get really serious as a country [about] getting the welfare bill down,” Burnham told the BBC in his first full interview since becoming Prime Minister last week. He said he is “absolutely committed” to meeting Nato defence spending targets, and suggested that he plans to slash welfare sp…