Around 3,000 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) jobs may be at risk after it was revealed that the UK Government department planned to close offices around the UK.
Questioning the closures, SNP work and employment spokesman Chris Stephens asked: "Can the minister confirm that the announcement could mean 3,000 jobs at risk of redundancy in the Department of Work and Pensions? And what measures is he going to ensure that this does not happen?"
Stephens also stated that the DWP was "looking to close offices in high economic deprivation areas", which he claimed is "counter-intuitive to the so-called levelling-up agenda".
