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Debate between David Duguid and Mel Stride
Monday 18th December 2023

(1 year ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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I am certainly not going to start making policy up on the hoof at the Dispatch Box this afternoon or promising more money for statutory sickness pay. That would require discussions across Government, but I note the point that the hon. Gentleman has made.

David Duguid Portrait David Duguid (Banff and Buchan) (Con)
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T2. I welcome this Government’s back to work plan and the emphasis on work being the most effective way out of poverty. What support can be made available for people in high unemployment areas to travel or relocate to areas of low unemployment such as Banff and Buchan, which have high numbers of vacancies, particularly in the seafood processing sector?