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Written Question
Poverty: Children
Monday 8th December 2014

Asked by: Lord McAvoy (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Lord Freud in the Grand Committee debate on the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Targets) Regulations 2014, that the facts Lord McAvoy had quoted were "simply not true" (HL Deb, 25 November, col GC 263), how they were not true.

Answered by Lord Freud

I wrote to the Noble Peer on this issue on 4th December 2014. I have placed a copy of this letter in the library of the House and have also attached it to this response.