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Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

Proceeding contribution from Chris Bryant (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 8 January 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills on Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.

Is there not another real problem? In many constituencies where there is profound deprivation and low-income families have even less money coming in to spend every week, we will see further depression in the local economy, more shops closed and fewer people in jobs, so that we will never be able to refloat the economy. Is not the greatest scandal of all the fact that working people in our constituencies—people in jobs—are using food banks to feed their children?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
556 c208 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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