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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 20 Dec 2016
Child Poverty

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"13. What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of improving co-operation between Jobcentre Plus and food banks. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"In just six months the Trussell Trust has provided more than 2,000 children in Bristol with emergency food parcels, and east Bristol food bank has had to open another outlet in Fishponds. We know that changes to benefits or delays in payments account for nearly half of those cases, so …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Jul 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"On the one hand, Lush cosmetics has just announced that it is going to move most of its production overseas, because it says that its workers do not feel welcome here, while on the other hand there are those in the food and farming sector, 38% of whose workforce comes …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Jun 2015
Child Poverty

"With the approaching long school summer holidays, this is a particularly difficult time for children living in food poverty, as they do not have access to free school meals or breakfast clubs. What is the Department going to do to tackle that issue?..."
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Written Question
Social Security Benefits
Tuesday 23rd June 2015

Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the feasibility of seconding Job Centre staff to do outreach sessions at food banks to support people who are experiencing problems with the administration of the welfare system.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

Local Jobcentre Plus managers have the freedom to develop partnerships with a wide range of organisations based on local needs and circumstances.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"15. What plans he has to respond to the recent recommendations of the all-party parliamentary group on hunger and food poverty...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"The report showed that about a quarter of a million people last year used food banks because of benefit sanctions. I have a constituent who showed me evidence that he applied for hundreds of jobs, but, because he applied for one by handing in a CV in person rather than …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"In answer to my earlier question, the right hon. Gentleman talked about the number of food banks under the last Labour Government. In the last year of that Government, there were 41,000 food bank users, but the number is now nearly 1 million a year—a figure that just before Christmas …..."
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