Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alison McGovern and Paul Kohler

Monday 16th December 2024 Commons Chamber

[Mr Paul Kohler (Wimbledon) (LD)]

T7. This Christmas, over one in four children in this country will be living in poverty. That could be partly addressed by scrapping the two-child benefit cap and paid for simply by reversing the Tory tax cut on the banks. What is more important: hungry children or bankers’ bonuses?

[Alison McGovern]

The hon. Gentleman is right to raise the condition of children living in poverty in this country. That is why, as I mentioned earlier, the child poverty taskforce is doing extensive work on the issue.