Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is really unhelpful, when we look at poverty, to focus on relative income measures? If there is a recession and incomes fall, poverty will appear to have got better when it has actually got worse. We need to look differently at poverty and focus on its underlying causes rather than on relative income measures.
Welfare Reform and Work Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Helen Whately
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 2 March 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Welfare Reform and Work Bill.
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