Jobcentre Plus Offices: Closure Debate
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Luciana Berger
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Jobcentre Plus Offices: Closure
Luciana Berger Excerpts(7 years, 10 months ago)
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Caroline Nokes
In many instances, co-location provides the best solution, exactly as my right hon. Friend has described, for claimants and indeed for our own staff. She will be aware that we have consulted jobcentre staff closely and looked at how we can best make sure that the new location for their roles fits with what they want, or, where essential, that they can be redeployed to other DWP roles.
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree) (Lab/Co-op)
In 2010, I had three jobcentres in my constituency. Old Swan was closed by the Minister’s Department at the start of 2010, and now she wants to close the other two, in Edge Hill and Wavertree. My constituency has the 39th highest level of unemployment in our country. Why does she want to make it harder for the 2,950 people who want to access support but will have to pay £8.80 every month to do so?