Big Issue editor asked for vendor details over benefit fraud concerns

Title

Big Issue editor asked for vendor details over benefit fraud concerns

Genre

Interview

TX Date

20 Sep 1994

Year of production

1994

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:03:13

Description

The Department of Employment has asked Big Issue founder and editor, John Bird to provide the names of 700 magazine vendors in the London area over fears they are fiddling the benefit system by selling so many magazines. Telephone interview with John Bird . Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

John Bird

Keywords

London; Government; Fraud; Social security; Homeless people; Homeless; Periodicals; Access to information; Big Issue; Confidentiality (personal data); Street tradesmen; Department of Employment

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.