Dietary Requirements

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 May 1991.

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Photo of Harry Cohen Harry Cohen , Leyton 12:00, 20 May 1991

Does the Minister acknowledge that income support levels are miserably low when set against nutritional needs? The poor get ripped off for the food that they have to buy. It may be cheap, but it is of poor quality. Families in my constituency tell me that on present income support levels they cannot afford to get take-away fish and chips once a month. Does not that tell the Minister that there is something fishy about income support levels? They are too low.