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Debate between Edward Timpson and Emma Reynolds
Monday 9th September 2013
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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Mr Edward Timpson)
My hon. Friend is right to highlight the encouraging rise in the number of people who want to adopt coming forward and the number of adoptions taking place. However, we still need to do more to ensure there are no barriers in the way of anyone who wants to come forward and give a child who needs the best possible start in life that permanent future, and we are determined to see it through.
Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East) (Lab)
The Secretary of State said last week that poor children who do not have their own room to do their homework in do not achieve their full potential. Can he explain the policy implications of that statement, and can we assume that he will be arguing against the bedroom tax?