Child Poverty

Lord Elystan-Morgan Excerpts

Thursday 25th June 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Evans of Bowes Park]

We are making sure that the welfare system rewards a willingness to work, and of course one of the key reforms of the Government is the implementation of universal credit, which will make sure that people are always better off by taking on more work. We also have our Work Programme, the largest programme to get people into work since the 1930s.

[Lord Elystan-Morgan (CB)]

The Minister referred to her party’s manifesto. Will there be a definite statutory commitment to the eradication of child poverty or not, either under the current formula or under a reformed and better formula?

[Baroness Evans of Bowes Park]

I am very happy to refer again to our commitment in the manifesto, which says that we will work,

“to eliminate child poverty and introduce better measures to drive real changes in children’s lives”.