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Burghart presses for welfare cuts in rowdy PMQs exchange

Daily Record's excerpt centres on a question about spending, with the government promising employment support and assessment reform.

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PMQs DESCENDS INTO CHAOS during savage welfare battle

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0:19Burghart asks how much the government expects to spend on working-age welfare this year.
1:13He puts the projected bill at £183 billion and presses for a commitment to reduce it.
1:56The government response identifies employment support, assessment reform and youth guarantees as routes to lower spending.
5:19Burghart asks whether the government's long-term plan means welfare cuts or higher taxes.
9:10Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervenes as MPs interrupt the government's closing response.

"This year, how much will the government spend on working-age welfare?" Alex Burghart asks at the Dispatch Box. The exchange that follows turns on a harder question: whether a promise to bring the bill down amounts to a commitment to cut spending.

Daily Record's PMQs excerpt drew around 65,000 views in its opening 14 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for regular videos.

Burghart, the Conservative deputy opposition leader, puts the projected bill at £183 billion and compares it with spending on defence, education and policing. He returns repeatedly to whether the government's plans will reduce that total or require higher taxes to pay for it.

The government response points to employment support, changes to assessments and youth guarantees as ways to address the drivers of welfare spending. It also puts responsibility for rising costs on the previous Conservative government. Burghart counters with questions about jobs, tax rises and the timetable for delivering savings.

The policy argument comes with sustained interruptions from the benches. Near the end, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervenes: "I don't think it looks good trying to shout a woman down."

Daily Record has also posted the full PMQs session separately. This shorter excerpt concentrates on the repeated demand for a spending commitment and the government's answer about how it intends to reduce the bill.

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