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Jim McGovern
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(11 years, 4 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
Well, that is a first, not just from the hon. Gentleman but more generally.
Jim McGovern (Dundee West) (Lab)
The most recent figures suggest that of the people who are on the back-to-work programme in my city of Dundee, 9% have managed to get back to work. I admit that that is an improvement on the farcical 1.4% that we had last year—the lowest in the UK, I believe—but it is not necessary to be an expert in arithmetic to work out that that means that 90% of people on the programme have still not found work. Will the Government admit that with the recent bedroom tax, which has been mentioned, and welfare benefit cuts, they are not just starving families in work but starving them full stop—