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Dan Jarvis
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Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) (Lab)
The IFS projects that child poverty will go up by 50% over the course of this Parliament. Why is that?
Damian Green
The IFS’s projections are for the IFS to explain, but I can give the hon. Gentleman the facts: the proportion of people living in relative poverty is near its lowest level for more than 30 years; and, since 2010, 300,000 fewer people, 100,000 fewer working-age adults, and 100,000 fewer children are in poverty. The whole House should welcome those figures.