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Oral Answers to Questions

Huw Irranca-Davies Excerpts
Tuesday 25th June 2013

(11 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Huw Irranca-Davies Portrait Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore) (Lab)
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Does the Minister see any correlation between wages being £1,300 a year less than they were at the time of the election and the number of people who are in work turning up at food banks?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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What I see is jobs being created in the private sector at a record rate in this country—1.3 million jobs in the past three years; a faster rate of job creation than any other G7 country last year. If the hon. Gentleman really cared about his constituents, he would welcome that.