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Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

I will answer the ill-advised point made by the hon. Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) before I take another intervention.

As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead has said, in cash terms—we should bear in mind that we buy food and clothing for our children with cash—

people on benefits have had an increase of £12 a week; at the same time, working people have had an increase of £49 a week. It is impossible to make the comparison in simple percentage terms. That is one of the central points of my speech, but I have dwelt on it rather too much. I keep returning to it because hon. Members who intervene seem not to hear it.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
557 cc83-4 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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