"Does my hon. Friend think that the Secretary of State learned anything when he visited Easterhouse in Glasgow and listened to what he was told about the level of poverty there?..." Sandra Osborne - View Speech
"Why does the Work programme fail the over-50s so badly, and why has it taken the Government more than three years even to begin to do anything about that?..." Sandra Osborne - View Speech
"T5. The South Ayrshire food bank is threatened with closure if it cannot find funding for premises for food storage and distribution by Christmas. Given today’s report on food banks, and given that the people involved are having to do this incredibly important work for the poorest in our society …..." Sandra Osborne - View Speech
"I can tell the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng) that the only wailing I hear is the wailing from my constituents, many of whom are very poor. He should be more respectful of that fact. The overall impact of UK tax and benefit changes between January 2010 and April …..." Sandra Osborne - View Speech
"The Government finally seem to have woken up to the scale of the problems that Atos has in delivering the work capability assessment. Why then has it been awarded the personal independence payment contract when it is clear that it has such serious capacity problems?..." Sandra Osborne - View Speech
"How does my hon. Friend think people will feel when they have the relief of finding out that they are exempt from the bedroom tax, only to then be told that the Government are breaking their necks to close the loophole?..." Sandra Osborne - View Speech
"I do not know quite how to follow the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (John Hemming), but I will do my best. I will try to be brief because others wish to speak.
Apparently the bedroom tax is officially known as the social sector size criterion. That says it all …..." Sandra Osborne - View Speech