Speeches

Roger Godsiff – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2015-11-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what procedures his Department follows when a jobcentre client requests a food bank voucher for the fourth time in any given year.

Priti Patel

The Department for Work and Pensions does not issue food bank vouchers.

Jobcentre Plus holds details of local organisations to which its staff can signpost claimants experiencing financial difficulty.