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Should the DWP be disbanded?

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Blog piece from Rich Watts ..

“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was created in 2001. We should ask whether now is the time to disband it.

I ask this as a question of long-term policy and the administration of a significant part of Britain’s political economy (or “state”), rather than a short-term campaigning question designed to score political points. However, it would have the political advantage for whoever achieves power in 2015 of drawing some sort of line under what have proven to be poorly motivated and poorly executed welfare reforms since 2010 .....”

http://arbitraryc.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/should-the-dwp-be-disbanded/