Alan Milburn
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Sep 12, 2026
Anoosh ChakelianHOST
Yeah.
Anoosh ChakelianHOST
It's interesting because the big NEATs review, the Alan Milburn review, I don't know what it's gonna say, and I haven't been told that this is what the final thing is gonna say, but when I interviewed him, he was really trying not to say that they should scrap the triple lock, but was basically saying it in all, all but words.
Will DunnHOST
Yeah.
Anoosh ChakelianHOST
He was saying, "It's interesting that we have this guarantee, but we don't have a guarantee for young people like that." Um, and then I know that senior people in the DWP have been thinking about it.
James KitchenHOST
The man writing a review on how to get more young people into work has told The Times in an interview that the current welfare system is a total state failure, trapping 16 to 24-year-olds on benefits.
James KitchenHOST
The Labour peer, Lord Alan Milburn, told The Times' Stephen Swinford that payouts need to be more conditional.
Alan MilburnSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a deal on both sides.
Alan MilburnSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The state absolutely has an obligation around more support and more opportunities.
Maeve HalliganHOST
And I'd like to pivot to our second topic for today.
Maeve HalliganHOST
Let's talk about Alan Milburn.
Maeve HalliganHOST
Now, he is former Labour Health Secretary, was so under Tony Blair.
Maeve HalliganHOST
And he now acts as an independent government advisor, you know, as opposed to a serving minister.
Christopher SnowdonPANELIST
It's often, you know, nearly always self-reported symptoms which are unfalsifiable.
Christopher SnowdonPANELIST
So you can't blame GPs for whom there's no incentive either way to say, well, fine, you know, I'll be sick and I can get out.
Christopher SnowdonPANELIST
But the result of that is you've got a lot of people, I think, gaming the system and a lot of other people who no doubt do suffer from depression or anxiety or ADHD or mild autism, who are being, as Milben said, put effectively on the scrappy.
Christopher SnowdonPANELIST
Because once you get on these benefits at a young age, it's quite difficult to get off them.
Paul NowakGUEST
No, let's be absolutely clear.
Paul NowakGUEST
Alan Milburn is doing a serious piece of work on this.
Paul NowakGUEST
He's talked about a decade's worth of structural problems backed up in our labour market, everything from the impact of the pandemic, the scrapping of the education maintenance allowance, the fact we've got an epidemic of low-paid, insecure employment.
Paul NowakGUEST
I desperately want to get those young people back into work, but you don't get them back into work by forcing them into insecure, low-paid, dead-end jobs.
James NationHOST
Welfare savings are going to be hard, going to be really difficult.
James NationHOST
You know, you've got the consensus around the Alan Milburn review on the younger people's side, but that's going to require upfront investment.
James NationHOST
On Tim's and disability benefits, very hard given the U-turn last year.
James NationHOST
Pensioners in triple lock, let's see, good luck.
Keir MatherGUEST
Ultimately, they need to know that if they're gonna trust us to carry on delivering for them.
Vicky SprattCORRESPONDENT
Alan Milburn has this massive review into NEETs coming out, young people who are not in education, employment, or training, and it's come about because the number of NEETs surpassed a million for the first time since the wake of the financial crisis.
Vicky SprattCORRESPONDENT
It's actually gone down to just below a million, but still an enormous number.
Vicky SprattCORRESPONDENT
Are you worried about what he might say?
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Vicky SprattCORRESPONDENT
One of the other big themes of the Gen Z story was young people's mental health.
Vicky SprattCORRESPONDENT
Now, we've all heard the stereotype that young people are lazy and entitled and snowflakes, and that they're overly anxious and not resilient.
Vicky SprattCORRESPONDENT
But Alan Milburn's interim report found that 2 in 5 18 to 24 year olds have had to take time out of work because of their mental health.
Vicky SprattCORRESPONDENT
What do you think is going on for this generation? Do you think the stereotypes are fair or unfair?
Rick CressmanGUEST
You know, the cost of employing, uh, young people has been increased by the best part of 50% in the last three years.
Rick CressmanGUEST
And, um, it, it seems very ironic that we've had a, a, the... all the fun and games of a two or three-month-long Milburn report and hearing-
Jon GauntHOST
Yeah
Rick CressmanGUEST
... to actually work out something as basic and simple as the fact that the government has priced young people's jobs out of the capability of the industry to, to generate them.
Rick CressmanGUEST
And I think it's criminal what the government has allowed and made happen now.
Jon GauntHOST
Okay.
Jon GauntHOST
So Alan Milburn is just doing a big report and, as you say, a report to tell us what we all bloody well know.
Jon GauntHOST
But he's al- But there's a problem with so-called NEETS.
Jeremy HuntGUEST
The private sector, again, if we treat this as a kind of big ideological debate, in the British context, we're probably never going to win that argument.
Jeremy HuntGUEST
Actually, Alan Milburn did more for the private sector than any of us did, because he was Labour.
Jeremy HuntGUEST
He could do that in a way a Conservative couldn't.
Jeremy HuntGUEST
But I would say, I go back to my previous example, if an integrated care board, can see that contracting with the private sector to do a daily visit to a 90-year-old woman who is highly vulnerable with early stage dementia is going to cost 50 pounds a day.
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James BethellHOST
And now he's got both sides of the accounts.
Jeremy HuntGUEST
He won't change anything, really, when it comes to prevention, unless he's prepared to do those big reforms to the incentives inside the NHS that we were talking about.
Jeremy HuntGUEST
And that was my disappointment, actually, with Wes Streeting when he was health secretary, that we had a lot of talk about reform, but reforms to the plumbing of the NHS... which, you know, Alan Milburn tried to do, I tried to do when it came to patient safety.
Jeremy HuntGUEST
That's what really needs to happen.
Andy HughesCORRESPONDENT
I'm Andy Hughes with the exclusive.
Nick FerrariHOST
The GP fit note system that allows young people to sign off work sick with conditions such as ADHD after just a brief consultation is insane, so says the government advisor on this issue, Alan Milburn.
Nick FerrariHOST
And consternation in entertainment circles.
Tom JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[singing] My, my, my, Delilah.
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speaker_0ADVERTISER
Ed Miliband and Britain have sadly sacrificed what is really a, a domestic political issue inside the UK, and then Israel have said very, very clearly, "We're not putting up with it."
Nick FerrariHOST
The GP fit note system that allows young people to sign off work sick with conditions such as ADHD after a brief consultation is insane.
Nick FerrariHOST
So says the government advisor on the subject, Alan Milburn.
Nick FerrariHOST
He spoke to me earlier in the year about this problem with jobless youths.
Sammy WrightGUEST
Because, you know, so for example, you know, one of the biggest drains on the public purse is, you know, young people who are economically inactive.
Sammy WrightGUEST
And this has been something that's been talked about a lot, including by Alan Milburn, who was on the iteration of the commission before mine.
Sammy WrightGUEST
And one of the ways in which we can prevent young people from Being that drain on the public purse is by ensuring that they get an effective education.
Sammy WrightGUEST
And one of the ways in which we can do that is by front-loading our investment into the things that support them around school age.
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