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Helen Goodman Excerpts
Monday 26th March 2018

(6 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Esther McVey Portrait Ms McVey
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It has always been about everybody working together. This Government, and this Department in particular, want to make sure that we step outside the silos and work across Departments and that work coaches stand outside what they need to do to make sure that they are reaching into people’s lives to help them progress.

Helen Goodman Portrait Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland) (Lab)
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What is the Minister going to do about employers such as the one in my constituency who sacked a lot of young people without paying them the wages they were owed, with the result that one of them—a pregnant woman—ate nothing but Smash for three weeks?