Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Grahame Morris and Will Quince

Monday 7th October 2019 Commons Chamber

[Will Quince]

I humbly suggest that few Members in the Chamber have raised child and infant mortality more than I have. I take the issue incredibly seriously and I have read that report. No one in government wants to see poverty rising. Wages have outpaced inflation for 18 months, and there are more people in work than ever before. We know that children in households in which no one works are about five times more likely to be in poverty than those in households in which all adults work. Our welfare reforms are incentivising work and supporting working families.

[Grahame Morris (Easington) (Lab)]

T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.