What’s happened?
Newly published statistics have intensified fears that the UK workforce is experiencing a mental-health crisis of unprecedented proportions, especially among young people – raising worrying questions over the future of our economy, society and public finances. Figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions this month showed that two million people are now receiving universal-credit health benefits, a jump of 400,000 in a year, with 69% of them judged unfit to work at all. On average, each claimant cites 2.7 health conditions, so it would be wrong to ascribe the increase to mental
