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Dan Carden Excerpts
Monday 2nd July 2018

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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The proportion of people in absolute poverty is now at a record low, with 1 million fewer people and 300,000 fewer children in absolute poverty since 2010. I cannot at this moment recall the number of households, but I will write to my hon. Friend with that number.

Dan Carden Portrait Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton) (Lab)
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There are just three case examiners working on 2,841 WASPI cases. The average wait for a complaint is 36 weeks, and last year 687 complaints took more than 43 weeks. Why are Ministers treating WASPI women with such disdain?