Ruth George
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Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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Mr Speaker
Colleagues can help each other by being very brief, which I am sure they will be.
Ruth George (High Peak) (Lab)
With child poverty set to increase by another 1.5 million by 2022, according to the Economic Council for Equality, what will the Treasury be doing to help the very poorest households?
Elizabeth Truss
What we have seen in the past few years, since 2015, is a 7% rise in the real wages of people on the lowest incomes, and a reduction in income inequality.