Child Poverty

Lord Liddle Excerpts

Thursday 25th June 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Evans of Bowes Park]

I am very happy to pass on the noble Earl’s request to the relevant Secretaries of State.

[Lord Liddle (Lab)]

My Lords, does the Minister agree that whatever the intellectual merits of different definitions of poverty, if the Government proceed with what is widely rumoured in the press to be £5 billion of cuts in working families’ tax credits, the impact of that will inevitably be to increase very considerably the amount of child poverty in this country?

[Baroness Evans of Bowes Park]

The noble Lord will understand that I cannot comment on speculation in the press, but once again I assure him that tackling child poverty is a priority for this Government and that we are determined to help to improve and transform the lives of the poorest and most disadvantaged in our society.