The decision to close six Glasgow Jobcentres will not be reviewed by Westminster despite calls to rethink plans.

The Scottish Affairs Committee has said it is disappointed by the Government’s response to their report, which raised concerns over plans to axe jobcentres in Parkhead, Easterhouse, Bridgeton, Anniesland, Langside, and Maryhill.

The Evening Times has been campaigning to save the Jobcentres since plans were revealed in December last year.

In the months since, the Department for Work and Pensions, decided to retain Castlemilk and Cambuslang offices and press ahead with plans to close “smaller or underutilised” Jobcentres in favour of larger ones to make better use of space and reduce cost to the tax payer.

Parkhead, Easterhouse and Bridgeton will all close under the plan and move into the one existing office in Shettleston.

The report by the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee raised a number of concerns over the plans including the accessibility of new centres and urged the Government to take into account the geography and transport infrastructure of the city. The DWP responded, stating that there are no “current plans to revisit Jobcentre provision in Glasgow.”

Adding that “the jobcentre strategy was extensively informed and driven by operational business managers, who are knowledgeable about their caseload and understand their local communities, and the local travel network.”

Chairman of the Committee, Pete Wishart branded the response as “disappointing”.

He added: “Jobcentre Plus centres are there to serve their communities, and provide assistance when people are in need.

“This is the basis the Government should be working on. Given the strength of the evidence we heard about the impact these closures will have I am disappointed that the Government has not taken our recommendations on board, and also does not appear to have learnt lessons from the confusing way these changes were communicated to the public and Jobcentre staff”.

As previously reported by the Evening Times, the Work and Pensions minister responsible for the closures in Glasgow has been invited to the city to speak to people directly affected.

Damian Hinds was asked by Glasgow East MP David Linden to come and meet people who use the east end job centres that are due to be shut.