Julie Hilling
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(12 years, 3 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
Order. There are still a lot of colleagues standing. May I please ask colleagues now to put a single-sentence question, without preamble—in other words, a genuine short question, which I know will be accommodated by the Chancellor with a short reply?
Julie Hilling (Bolton West) (Lab)
With 300,000 more children in absolute poverty, how many more will be in poverty by 2015?
Mr Osborne
Child poverty projections are made independently, but I say to the hon. Lady that we are doing everything we can to give children from poorer backgrounds the very best start in life, with measures such as the pupil premium.