Poverty: Coventry

(asked on 9th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the level of child poverty in (a) Coventry North East constituency and (b) Coventry.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 22nd February 2021

No assessment has been made.

We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond to ensure that nobody is left behind. That’s why we’ve targeted our support to those most in need by raising the living wage, spending hundreds of billions to safeguard jobs, boosting welfare support by billions and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme to help children and families stay warm and well-fed during the coldest months.

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