I suggest to the Minister that we should be ashamed that this is happening. I was brought up in the 1950s in a family of the poorest of the poor, and my parents would not have dreamt of going to a food bank. All these years later, we are talking of parents and children having to go to a food bank. If this so-called facility exists, the Government should do something to eradicate the need for food banks.
Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Martin of Springburn
(Crossbench)
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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