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PEOPLE considered too fat to work could be put on a diet under plans being investigated by Iain Duncan Smith to slash the benefits bill.
Welfare for the seriously overweight has ballooned by 70 per cent from £29million in 2012 to £40million last year, figures reveal.
Now the Work and Pensions Secretary has asked his department to “investigate the possibility” of introducing the liquids-only Cambridge Diet for almost 8,000 benefit claimants who are obese.
He has also written to the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt voicing his concern at the growing cost of British obesity.
The move comes after Mr Duncan Smith met his constituent Ruth Barber, a Cambridge Diet consultant, and Professor Anthony Leeds, Cambridge Weight Plan medical director.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/510666/Tory-diet-plan-for-those-too-fat-to-work
Story is a month old, but I think I missed it when it came out.
Welfare for the seriously overweight has ballooned by 70 per cent from £29million in 2012 to £40million last year, figures reveal.
Now the Work and Pensions Secretary has asked his department to “investigate the possibility” of introducing the liquids-only Cambridge Diet for almost 8,000 benefit claimants who are obese.
He has also written to the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt voicing his concern at the growing cost of British obesity.
The move comes after Mr Duncan Smith met his constituent Ruth Barber, a Cambridge Diet consultant, and Professor Anthony Leeds, Cambridge Weight Plan medical director.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/510666/Tory-diet-plan-for-those-too-fat-to-work
Story is a month old, but I think I missed it when it came out.