MILLIONS of pounds set aside by the government each year to help people return to work is going unspent, Labour warned yesterday.

A Parliamentary question submitted by work and pensions select committee chairman Frank Field revealed that the “flexible support fund” underspent by £8.4 million last year — about 12 per cent of the £69.5m fund.

And the underspend for 2014-15 was even worse; at £64m it was nearly half that year’s overall budget.