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Poverty & Education: APPG Poverty workshop with Young People

Posted on 13 Sep 2013

During May 2013, working with 399 young people from around the UK, KidsCo, the NUT and CPAG asked young people what they thought about the costs of going to ...Read More

Written Answers – Work and Pensions: Children: Poverty (10 Sep 2013)

Posted on 13 Sep 2013

Stephen Timms (East Ham, Labour) To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the number of additional children who would be living in households receiving below ...Read More

Oral Answers to Questions – Treasury: Income Tax (10 Sep 2013)

Posted on 13 Sep 2013

Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes, Labour) Yesterday, yet another food bank opened, in Methil in my constituency. Fifty volunteers are doing an exceptional job in difficult circumstances. One of the volunteers asked me, ...Read More

Oral Answers to Questions – Treasury: Child Poverty (10 Sep 2013)

Posted on 13 Sep 2013

Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove, Conservative) It is not clear what the hon. Lady is proposing. Is she saying that she is against some of the changes we have made on welfare? ...Read More

Oral Answers to Questions – Treasury: Family Incomes (10 Sep 2013)

Posted on 13 Sep 2013

Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove, Conservative) My hon. Friend correctly highlights that the best way out of poverty is through work. As she says, the private sector has generated almost 1.3 million ...Read More

Women and Equalities: Equality for Disabled People (5 Sep 2013)

Posted on 13 Sep 2013

Esther McVey (Wirral West, Conservative) What I would like to do is paint the correct picture, which the hon. Lady is not doing. I can give her either the latest ...Read More

Backbench Business – High-cost Credit (5 Sep 2013)

Posted on 13 Sep 2013

William Bain (Glasgow North East, Labour) It is a pleasure to be called to speak in the debate. I congratulate my hon. Friend Chris Evans on securing it, and the Backbench Business Committee on ...Read More

The Living Wage: good for business, good for families, and good for society

Posted on 13 Sep 2013

The Living Wage Foundation An initiative of Citizens UK, the Living Wage Foundation grew from the belief that hardworking people should be able to afford to access community and ...Read More

Welcome from Kate Green MP Chair APPG Poverty

Posted on 12 Sep 2013

Parliamentarians have a special responsibility to speak out for the most excluded and disadvantaged, those who will struggle the most to have their concerns heard.

The Living Wage is an idea whose time has come

Posted on 12 Sep 2013

As a Conservative Member of Parliament I believe that lower taxes stimulate growth and jobs, that smaller government is invariably better government, and that government must “ensure that work ...Read More