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Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

I would like to finish my point. I am glad that my comments have elicited so much excitement and that lots of people want to intervene. There are basic things that we need in order to sustain life, and if someone is on poverty money—the hon. Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) said there are 600,000 people in severe poverty—their 1% increase cannot be compared with the way that a school teacher, for example—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
557 c80 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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