Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill Debate

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Amber Rudd

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Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

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Monday 21st January 2013

(11 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The Labour party just thinks that we can sink further into a sea of debt. We have to call time on that. We have to get control of our public finances and our private finances, and restore sound money once again.

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend not find it confusing that the Opposition support fixing public sector pay rises at 1%, but not controlling the level by which out-of-work benefits increase?

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