Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Sheila Gilmore Excerpts
Tuesday 14th May 2013

(11 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sheila Gilmore Portrait Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East) (Lab)
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Is the Minister familiar with the universal jobmatch website created by one of his colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions? If he has looked at the nature of the jobs being advertised there, he will have seen that in my area, 57 out of 76 advertised shop vacancies were for one company, operating all over the east of Scotland, which wanted people to work on a self-employed basis, distributing catalogues and selling things from them—

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I do apologise to the hon. Lady, but we must press on. There is a lot to get through. We need short questions and brief answers.