Benefits and Food Banks (County Durham)
I would like to start this debate with two quotations. The first is as follows:
“Relief var...
What the hon. Gentleman says about Durham is replicated across the whole of the United Kingdom; i...
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That is a valid point, and we should pay tribute to the churches up and down the country that are...
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. Does he think it an absolute disgrace that...
My hon. Friend—a fellow Durham MP—and I both know what is happening in our schools now. Children ...
In Tees Valley, which is partly covered by my hon. Friend’s constituency, we are aware that unemp...
Of course they are. Some people say it is an issue of supply and that because there are more food...
I congratulate the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Phil Wilson) on securing the debate.
I belie...
What about jobs?
I shall return to the subject of jobs shortly.
My Department has been asked a number of que...
The Minister is from County Durham, and presumably knows the area well. I must tell him, however,...
People who lose their jobs are paid in arrears and the money we are saving by increasing the peri...
I am still waiting for the Minister to get to the main point of my comments. What he is saying is...
We are making reforms to welfare. The hon. Gentleman raised the issue of people on low incomes us...