Finance (No. 2) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 6:01 pm on 15 April 2013.

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Photo of Andy Sawford Andy Sawford Labour, Corby 6:01, 15 April 2013

My hon. Friend is making an incredibly important point about the uneven effects of the Government’s policies. In some parts of the country people have been able to return to work, according to the much-vaunted statistics on unemployment in recent months, but across East Northamptonshire 126 more people this year are on employment and support allowance because of the Government’s failure to get our economy growing overall and their particular failure to help those communities that have suffered most in recent years.