Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Eddie Hughes and Will Quince

Monday 7th October 2019 Commons Chamber

[Will Quince]

The statistics show that full-time work reduces substantially the chances of poverty. The absolute poverty rate for children where both parents work full-time is only 4%, compared with 44% where one or more parents are in work, so we need to support more people into work, and we are doing so, for example, by offering 30 hours of free childcare to parents of three and four-year-olds. The national living wage is £8.21, increasing to £10.50 by 2024, and we have taken millions out of paying tax altogether.

[Eddie Hughes (Walsall North) (Con)]

6. What recent steps the Government have taken to help young people into employment.