7. 3. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:10 pm on 1 November 2016.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 4:10, 1 November 2016

On the weekend, I attended the launch of the latest food bank in my constituency, in Pencoed, and my thanks go to the volunteers of Bridgend food bank who provide food distribution now on every day to every single part of my constituency. They will understand and agree with me that, in an ideal world, we would not need food banks at all. Could I call for a debate on the impact of changes, therefore, to the universal benefits system on families and communities in Wales and the principle of making work pay following the damning report from the Iain Duncan Smith-linked Centre of Social Justice, showing that those in work could be up to £1,000 worse off in work? Would she agree that when someone like the former Secretary of State, Iain Duncan Smith, whose reputation goes before him, says that it’s going to punish poor, working households, we should be very worried?