Urgent Question on Job Centre Plus closures: 30 January 2017
30 January 2017 (updated on 30 January 2017)
Caroline Nokes, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Welfare Delivery, responded to an Urgent Question today asked by Ronnie Cowan, MP for Inverclyde, on the proposed closures of Job Centre Plus offices throughout the country.
Shadow Works and Pensions Minister, Margaret Greenwood, responded to the statement on behalf of the Opposition.
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