Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 13 June 2012.
The use of food banks in Plymouth has gone up, from 790 food banks to nearly 4,000 in a year. Is the Prime
Minister proud of the fact that it is his changes to benefit arrangements which are causing this to happen—there is no doubt about that—and is he therefore going to stand up and say, “Yes, that’s fine; food banks are lovely”? Yes, they are lovely, and the people of Plymouth are magnificent in the way they feed in to those, but will he pass the buck on this, and go for a gold medal in passing the buck, as he has over the Culture Secretary—