Does Reform's plan to cut £50bn in welfare spending add up?

Reform UK has set out plans it says will save more than £50bn a year from the welfare bill by 2030 if it gets into government.

The party believes it can deliver much of this by stopping foreign nationals from getting most benefits and also reforming disability payments while protecting the most "severely disabled".

BBC Verify has been breaking down what Reform says it wants to do - and how realistic it is.

The UK government will spend £353bn on welfare benefits this year - just under half of that goes on the state pension, which Reform has said it will not cut.

That leaves £207bn - so cutting £50bn a year like Reform proposes would represent roughly 25% of total remaining welfare spending, which would be extremely ambitious.

One of the benefits Reform is looking at is Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - a working age payment that helps individuals deal with the extra costs of having a physical or mental health condition or disability.

The number of people claiming it has risen from around 2.4 million before the pandemic to four million this year in England and Wales.

Reform says around £21bn of its planned £50bn savings would come from changes to health and disability benefits including PIP.