Parliamentary search - Deprivation/Child Poverty

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

477 c307-52WH

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

The best start in life? Allieviating deprivation, improving social mobility and eradicating child poverty. Work and Pensions Select Committee second report in 2 volumes with proceedings, evidence (HC 1023-i 2006-07 and HC 42 i-iii 2007-08 not printed separately) and appendices.
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Best start in life? Alleviating deprivation improving social mobility and eradicating child poverty. Work and Pensions Select Committee second special report - government response to the Committee's second report of session 2007-08 (HC 42).
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Stephen Timms | 477 c349-50WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. The incidence of poverty as a proportion is much lower in households where someone is in wo...

Stephen Timms | 477 c350WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry. ““Breakdown Britain”” is a term that I have in this context, but I do not believe that i...

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Andrew Selous | 477 c350WH (Link to this contribution) ““Breakthrough Britain””.

Stephen Timms | 477 c351-2WH (Link to this contribution) Family stability is an important contribution to the well-being of children, so the Government have ...

Andrew Selous | 477 c350WH (Link to this contribution) During the two minutes remaining, will the Minister respond to the issues about family stability and...

Stephen Timms | 477 c344WH (Link to this contribution) We are committed to achieving the target. If hon. Members look at the numbers, we have reduced child...

Harry Cohen | 477 c344WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister think that the Government will meet the 2010 target?

Andrew Selous | 477 c344WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

John Penrose | 477 c341WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend remembers that the level of single-parent family formation back in 198...

Andrew Selous | 477 c340-1WH (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not the sort of Conservative who defends everything that my party has done in the pas...

Stephen Timms | 477 c343-4WH (Link to this contribution) I begin by welcoming the report, which has given us the opportunity to have this useful and interest...

Andrew Selous | 477 c341-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Let me just remind the Committee that children of separated pare...

Stephen Timms | 477 c340WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman's comments with interest. What would his policy response be and...

Andrew Selous | 477 c340WH (Link to this contribution) I freely admit that it is not easy, but the Minister has all the clever people behind him and the ve...

Terry Rooney | 477 c340WH (Link to this contribution) Very briefly, the rates that we have today were set in 1988 under the Social Security Act 1986 and u...

Tom Levitt | 477 c349WH (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend say something about in-work poverty? The Government are right to say that ...

Stephen Timms | 477 c348-9WH (Link to this contribution) I reassure the hon. Gentleman that there is no slackening of our focus on the relative poverty measu...

John Penrose | 477 c348WH (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister moves on from that point, will he confirm that his ministerial colleagues were i...

Stephen Timms | 477 c348WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that clarification, but disappointed. I thought that perhaps...

Andrew Selous | 477 c348WH (Link to this contribution) I should just like to clarify that it was not my intention to change the language that my party has ...

Stephen Timms | 477 c346-8WH (Link to this contribution) We have much fewer than we used to have—there are 400,000 fewer. That is a reflection of the terribl...

Stephen Timms | 477 c344-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that point, and I entirely understand why he did so....

Andrew Selous | 477 c346WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure we are all delighted to hear that story, but if the labour market in this country is as ro...

Stephen Timms | 477 c344WH (Link to this contribution) Let me answer the question first, if I may. We have made announcements that we hope and expect will ...

Andrew Selous | 477 c344WH (Link to this contribution) I just want to check this. The Minister said he had reduced poverty by 600,000. Is it not now 500,00...

Annette Brooke | 477 c334WH (Link to this contribution) I can assure the hon. Gentleman that there are plenty of them. The Liberal Democrats are proud to ha...

Harry Cohen | 477 c325-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for mentioning that example. The Government should be pressing schoo...

Kerry McCarthy | 477 c325WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend referred to the stigma attached to having free school meals. I am very much aware of ...

Tom Levitt | 477 c329-30WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may like to know that when the Committee visited Cardiff to see Jobcentre Plus workin...

Kerry McCarthy | 477 c326-9WH (Link to this contribution) I start by congratulating the Select Committee on producing the report. Although child poverty may b...

Speaker | 477 c330WH (Link to this contribution) I call Andrew Selous. No, I am so sorry. I call Annette Brooke.

Kerry McCarthy | 477 c330WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Ongoing advice is important, especially on things like...

Terry Rooney | 477 c334WH (Link to this contribution) Don't worry about it.

Annette Brooke | 477 c330-4WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Lady Winterton. I welcome this first opportunity to serve under your chairmanship. I con...

Harry Cohen | 477 c320-5WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (John Penrose). I cannot say that t...

Andrew Selous | 477 c336-8WH (Link to this contribution) What I do know is that the Government have a tendency not to like any report that is not favourable ...

Tom Levitt | 477 c336WH (Link to this contribution) I notice that the hon. Gentleman did not refer to the anti-poverty strategy prior to 1997 when there...

Andrew Selous | 477 c335-6WH (Link to this contribution) Lady Winterton, I am sure that you would never give me a heart attack, but I thank you for your cons...

Speaker | 477 c335WH (Link to this contribution) I call Andrew Selous, having almost given him a heart attack a few minutes ago.

Andrew Selous | 477 c339-40WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear that, but my conversations with people such as Debbie Scott from Tomorrow's Peo...

Terry Rooney | 477 c339WH (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree at all. What the hon. Gentleman has just proposed has already happened, so why doe...

Andrew Selous | 477 c339WH (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman disagrees regarding this area, and I am delighted to take an interven...

Terry Rooney | 477 c338WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

John Penrose | 477 c335WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady accept that although the achievements of Scandinavian countries are tremendously ...

Annette Brooke | 477 c335WH (Link to this contribution) I simply think that they are worth considering. Sweden, for example, does have issues relating to et...

Speaker | 477 c318WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the hon. Gentleman to respond, let me say that interventions should be somewhat...

John Penrose | 477 c318-9WH (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman's point about the importance of quality. The point that I...

Tom Levitt | 477 c311WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the passporting of benefits must be fully taken into account...

Terry Rooney | 477 c311-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is a link between the minimum wage and the £95 a week disr...

John Penrose | 477 c313-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chairman of the Committee on securing this well-timed debate, coming as it does s...

Barry Sheerman | 477 c315WH (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman couch that in terms of the broad philosophy that David Freud has brought to...

John Penrose | 477 c316WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with large parts of the Freud report. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that Freud recommen...

Philip Hollobone | 477 c316WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend made the point earlier that the ““better off in work”” calculation should be simple. ...

John Penrose | 477 c316-8WH (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. Two things would need to happen for that to be achieved....

Barry Sheerman | 477 c318WH (Link to this contribution) The Select Committee on Children, Schools and Families has just returned from two intensive days' wo...

Terry Rooney | 477 c310-1WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for those remarks. I shall come on to sanctions in a moment, if he will permi...

Terry Rooney | 477 c310WH (Link to this contribution) I understand why some people waiting for the calculation to be completed lose the will to live. But,...

Harry Cohen | 477 c310WH (Link to this contribution) Is there not an added factor? Is there not real risk of jobcentre staff saying that the person would...

Terry Rooney | 477 c307-10WH (Link to this contribution) I was rather hoping that the hon. Member for Cardiff, Central (Jenny Willott) would be here today, b...

John Penrose | 477 c310WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is not just the end result of the calculation that is gravely ...

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Families

Low incomes

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