I strongly support the new clause and my hon. Friend's arguments for it. Does he agree that the proposal is particularly salient in low-income areas such as my constituency, because many of my constituents cannot afford the basics after they have paid rent, for the simple reason that rents have not come down with the recession, whereas in many cases incomes have declined?
Child Poverty Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lembit Opik
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 December 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Child Poverty Bill.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
502 c391 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2023-12-11 09:59:41 +0000
URI
http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_600866
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_600866
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_600866