Finance (No. 2) Bill

Debate between Alison Seabeck and Catherine McKinnell

Wednesday 9th April 2014 Commons Chamber

[Catherine McKinnell]

My hon. Friend’s point goes to the heart of the matter. It demonstrates what is wrong with this policy and how ill-conceived it is.

[Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View) (Lab)]

The intervention from the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous) was interesting, but should he not acknowledge that only one in six of those families will benefit from any of this?

[Catherine McKinnell]

My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. Our opposition to this measure is that it disproportionately impacts on women and benefits men and that it does not recognise five out of six households with children up and down the country who are, as we know, struggling to make ends meet.