Policy paper

2010 to 2015 government policy: employment

How the government is getting Britain working and helping people break the cycle of benefit dependency.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions, HM Treasury, The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, The Rt Hon George Osborne, The Rt Hon Mark Harper and The Rt Hon Esther McVey MP
• Published: 16 April 2013
• Last updated: 8 May 2015
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  1. 8 May 2015

     Policy document from the 2010 to 2015 government preserved in a different format for reference

  2. 26 March 2015

     Added information about Help to Work and Mandatory Work Activity.

  3. 6 August 2014

     Removed references to the Wage Incentive.

  4. 17 July 2014

     Added information about the Wage Incentive being withdrawn from 6 August 2014. .

  5. 13 June 2014

     Published 'Fuller Working Lives: a framework for action' that sets out new actions we will take to help people have fuller working lives.

  6. 12 March 2014

     Added information about how the Ethnic Minority Employment Stakeholder Group support this policy.

  7. 8 August 2013

     Welfare reform communications toolkit link added.

  8. 15 July 2013

     Added "Co-ordinating the health, work and wellbeing initiative"

  9. 16 April 2013

     First published.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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This policy paper shows the policy of the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government.

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