more of our own people the skills and incentives and support to get off welfare and back into work. and we can't afford such a spiraling increase in the welfare bill and the irresponsible burden that we'll place on this and future generation of taxpayers. we now spend 69 billion pounds on benefits for people of working age with a disability or health condition. that's more than our entire school's budget, more than our transport budget, more than our policing budget. and spending on personal independence payments alone is forecast to increase by more than 50% over the next four years. let me just repeat that. if we do not change, it will increase by more than 50% in just four years. that's not right. it's not sustainable, and it's not fair on the taxpayers who fund it. so in the next parliament the