WATCH: ATOS seeks early exit from fit-to-work tests

But the Government says the firm is “unprofessional” for wanting an early exit

Cut in spare room subsidy boosts home swapping websites

Labour politicians must aware of the existence of these website. yet they keep peddling the “nowhere to move” myth.

Jill Kirby: The growing belief that even the poorest should contribute to their own welfare

A new report by Theos finds support for reciprocity and mutual support rather than means testing.

WATCH: Esther McVey MP welcomes the employment figures

The Employment Minister welcomes the good economic news.

Two reasons why Cameron will find it difficult to persuade Archbishop Nichols

One of the cruellest illusions of collectivism, T.E.Utley once pointed out, is that compassion can be delegated to the state.

Benefits Street ends, debate continues

Labour are running out of excuses for their failure of trapping people on welfare.

Nick de Bois :The moral outrage should be at the dependency culture left by Labour

Where were the church leaders then when the welfare system made it financially disadvantageous for the worst off in society to take a job instead of benefits?

Chris Whitehouse: An Archbishop with an enviable gift for a sound-bite

Perhaps the Levite who passed by on the other side had thoughts about lobbying for a stranded traveller intervention scheme

Andrew Gimson interviews Steve Baker MP: “Number one the welfare state isn’t good enough and number two we can’t afford it.”

The Chairman of the ’22’s public services committee warns that the Treasury is re-starting “the doomsday machine that got us into this mess”.

Grant Shapps: How Cameron is following in the footsteps of Thatcher

As in 1983, the choice is is stark: either to continue progress towards recovery, or to follow extreme and damaging Labour policies

The Tories need a generous not a coercive rhetoric about the poor

Voters detect, in expressions like “hard-working families”, an intolerable bogusness.

The bloated wealthfare state is building socialism for the rich

If national government were as efficient as local government we’d much closer to balancing the books.

George Osborne has misunderstood the politics and economics of welfare reform

The long-term effects of Osborne’s slash-and-burn approach to welfare are less certain than IDS’s more considered approach.

Cutting the numbers stuck on disability benefit is an important achievement

Providing the most effective help and opportunities for the disabled can be achieved at the same time as reducing the cost to the taxpayer.

Security

Number 10 wants to turn the barrage of statistics claiming success into a story about protecting voters in an uncertain world.