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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Tuesday the 19th of March.

Coming up, the Work and Pension Secretary outlines her plans to cut the welfare bill and get people back to work.

I am not prepared to accept a system that is miserable for people, that traps them in poverty.

Also, the opposition abandons its own pledge to make the UK carbon neutral by 2050.

We think it's time for a new approach, one focused on security and cost of the consumer

and not on pie in the sky targets with no plan to reach them.

And the Lib Dems think the government's got its priorities wrong.

When our schools are crumbling, when special needs provision is in crisis,

why has the government chosen to tinker with academies and governance arrangements

as their priority education

policy. But first, the work on pension secretary Liz Kendall has unveiled the government's plans

for welfare, saying she was not prepared to accept the current system which track people in poverty.

In a much anticipated statement, she told MPs the aim was to get claimants back

into meaningful work where possible and save £5 billion by 2030. She said the changes were

needed to protect the benefit system in the long term for those who had to rely on it.

There will always be people who can never work because of the severity of their disability

or illness. Under this government, the social security system will always be there for people

in genuine need. That is a principle we will never compromise on.

But disabled people and people with health conditions who can work

should have the same right, choices and chances to work as everybody else.

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