Universal Credit Roll-out Debate
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David Linden
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(7 years ago)
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Drew Hendry
I was just clarifying that I have experienced exactly the same in my constituency, where mobile phone coverage still lags behind, particularly in our rural areas. This is not only about people’s inability to get online; people are unable to get on a bus to actually get to a jobcentre to use its facilities. Those bus services sometimes do not exist.
David Linden (Glasgow East) (SNP)
I commend my hon. Friend on his work in Inverness, which everybody in Parliament admires. When he mentioned jobcentres, I noticed the Minister for Employment shaking his head, but he wants to close three of the four jobcentres in Glasgow East, where digital exclusion is a massive problem. Does my hon. Friend share my concern?
Drew Hendry
I am grateful to my hon. Friend. It beggars belief that jobcentres will be closed during this process. Moving on—