Disability Benefits and Social Care Debate

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Ann Clwyd

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Opposition Day

Disability Benefits and Social Care

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Regional Pay
Wednesday 20th June 2012

(12 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Liam Byrne Portrait Mr Byrne
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I very much hope that the Secretary of State will apologise shortly. I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. What we need all over the country is leadership, ensuring that work continues in these factories.

Ann Clwyd Portrait Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley) (Lab)
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Eleven people are chasing every single job in my constituency, and there is no point in the Secretary of State going to Merthyr to tell people to get on a bus to Cardiff because there are no jobs in Cardiff either. After the last round of redundancies in the Remploy factory in the Cynon Valley in 1988, only one man ever found a job again. With unemployment now running at 9% in my constituency, I ask the Secretary of State again: where are the jobs? Tell us: where are the jobs for disabled people?

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