Child Poverty

Rebecca Pow Excerpts
Thursday 25th June 2015

(9 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Iain Duncan Smith Portrait Mr Duncan Smith
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I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The purpose is to get income inequality down, and it actually fell over the last Parliament. The way to do that is to improve the numbers going into work, to get them to go further and into full-time work. Universal credit helps that enormously.

Rebecca Pow Portrait Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane) (Con)
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I invite the Secretary of State to come to Taunton and to Halcon, where he will see how the Government’s long-term strategy to address the root causes of poverty is working. Halcon is among the 4% most deprived parts of the country and has four generations of unemployed families. The One team’s project with police, education and everybody working together is working, so may I urge him to come and have a look?

Iain Duncan Smith Portrait Mr Duncan Smith
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I welcome my hon. Friend to this place. I absolutely will—it would not take much to get me out to Taunton. As my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip is sitting next to me, I hope that he will be tolerant when my hon. Friend asks me and I ask for a slip.