The Minister is speaking as though the only people using food banks are those who go to the jobcentres. Surely, from my experience and that of other noble Lords, many of the people who are now using food banks are actually in employment. As things like the bedroom tax bite, more people in employment will lose out on what benefits were available to them.
Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 5 March 2013.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.
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