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Alison McGovern

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Deputy Speaker’s Statement

Oral Answers to Questions

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List of Ministers’ Interests and Ministerial Code
Monday 24th April 2023

(1 year, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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We on the Labour Benches join you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and the Minister in the tribute to Len Goodman, and we think of all his loved ones today. He was not just a national treasure, but someone who helped to put money in pensioners’ pockets, which is where it belongs.

The local elections are next week, so people will be thinking of the fortunes of their towns or cities. In many places, unemployment is not low, as the Minister has said, but high. In Blackpool, for example, one constituency has unemployment at an excruciating 8%. What about that chronic poor performance should be rewarded at the ballot box next week?

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