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Benefits and Food Banks (County Durham)

I am still waiting for the Minister to get to the main point of my comments. What he is saying is all very well, but there are still half a million people using food banks for three main reasons, and other reasons as well. Are the Government going to do any analysis? Are they going to look at why people are using food banks, to see whether there is any way they can close the holes in the safety net that people are falling through? We should continue to reform welfare, so it is the state that is doing this, not charities.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
565 c1035 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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