All 1 Debates between Rosie Cooper and Yvonne Fovargue

Wed 26th Feb 2014

Housing Benefit

Debate between Rosie Cooper and Yvonne Fovargue
Wednesday 26th February 2014

(10 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rosie Cooper Portrait Rosie Cooper
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Only a Government Member could begin to pose that question. The Government need to provide the means to make the change. Single people do not necessarily want to sit in a three-bedroom house. They need a property to go to. The Government need to provide the means to enable them to make that change. I will not be taught any lessons by the hon. Gentleman.

Yvonne Fovargue Portrait Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield) (Lab)
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Does my hon. Friend agree that housing benefit is an in-work benefit, not an out-of-work benefit? To talk about people sitting at home, out of work, on housing benefit is completely out of context.

Rosie Cooper Portrait Rosie Cooper
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I absolutely agree with—[Interruption.]