I thank the Chancellor for listening to those of us who were pressing for an extension to the free school meals programme, because it is an important measure in helping to reduce child poverty, but does he agree that it is quite wrong for the Liberal Democrats to lecture us on reducing child poverty when the first thing that Hull, which is a Liberal Democrat-controlled council, did was to withdraw its free school meals programme?
Pre-Budget Report
Proceeding contribution from
Roberta Blackman-Woods
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 December 2009.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Pre-Budget Report.
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