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Not long ago, a lot was done to help people who were on package holidays and who were stranded at airports when their planes were grounded by volcanic ash.
Not overly to criticise the UK Parliament, I want to ascertain that our Parliament has its own house absolutely in order and that every website is up to date. Perhaps Mr Stevenson could inform us about that.
(S4F-02040) The Trussell Trust reports that 71,000 people used food banks in the past financial year, which is a fivefold increase on the previous year, and that more than 17,000 children have received assistance from food banks.
The living wage has made a difference to individuals, which ranges from their being able to afford to decorate a nursery, for example, to their having savings in the bank and perhaps being able to go on holiday.
I am a main board director of Lloyds Banking Group. I have been in the company for almost 24 years, from the Trustee Savings Bank through Lloyds TSB to Lloyds Banking Group.
Making reasonable adjustments would entail saying to somebody, “Here’s a house—you don’t need to get references or have a bank account, and everything else will be sorted out for you.”
We need to ensure that councils are at the forefront of the economic recovery; they are an anchor employer in many areas, so it makes sense that they are empowered and at the forefront of that recovery through developing new income streams—for example, by establishing municipally owned bus companies and community investment banks and enabling the transition...
However, information that the Trussell Trust gave out recently says that, compared with a general 15 per cent increase in food bank use, there is a residual 52 per cent increase a year after universal credit has been rolled out.