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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament

Rejected petition Iain Duncan Smith to live off £53 for a week

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The Work and Pensions Secretary said on BBC Radio Four's Today programme he could survive on £7.57 per day if he "had to", as he defended a raft of cuts to welfare payments coming into force on the 1st of April 2013.

I would like to give him the opportunity to do just that.

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