The Minister says that this grant has not always been spent on what it was intended for and instead has been spent on things such as buggies—they are equally important. Would it not have been advisable then to have targeted it, by using, for example, income-related benefits, so that it went to people who really needed it and was spent on what it was intended for?
Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Sharon Hodgson
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 October 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill.
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