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Welfare Reform and Work Bill

Proceeding contribution from Geraint Davies (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 20 July 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills on Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

The Secretary of State knows that the number of those earning over £25,000 now is 800,000 fewer than it was in 2010. The real crisis in Britain today is not the number of people not in work, but in-work poverty. Given that child and family tax credits basically subsidise and incentivise work, will he look at this again and accept that the real crisis is not the number of people without jobs, which is what he has been talking about, but the fact that people in work do not earn enough to put food on the table, and they are getting more and more poor?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
598 c1263 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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