Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) The Government should hang their head in shame.Children are going hungry. - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) woman, man and child has a right to nutritious food should be enshrined in law.I want to finish by congratulating - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) Every eligible child should be eligible from day one. This is not an expensive change. - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) , arriving at school hungry in the morning and going to bed hungry at night. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) industry should first be given a chance. - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) A scandalous amount of food is being wasted and going to landfill, and I think we should do something - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) and so on was going. - Speech Link
Correspondence May. 28 2024
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Scottish Child Payment Submission by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Mentions:
1: Tahir Ali (Lab - Birmingham, Hall Green) Children are going to school hungry, and this is often the only hot meal that they will have. - Speech Link
2: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) I represent a constituency with one of the highest rates of child poverty in the entire country, and - Speech Link
3: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) child goes hungry and no families are left struggling to put food on the table for their kids. - Speech Link
4: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Just ask any teacher, and they will say that a hungry child cannot concentrate in class. - Speech Link
Oral Evidence May. 02 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: Food Foundation, Food Foundation, Food Foundation, and Food Foundation Oral Evidence
Mentions:
1: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) I think that every member in the chamber agrees that we must eradicate child poverty, that no child should - Speech Link
2: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) It was going to end homelessness and rough sleeping, yet the figures are going in the opposite direction - Speech Link
3: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) S6M-13566.2, to leave out from first “eradicating” to end and insert:“child poverty should be a national - Speech Link
4: Marra, Michael (Lab - North East Scotland) Those deaths may not be an immediate symptom of child poverty but, for many, they are the end point. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and parents to make the right food choices, which is the building block to eradicating child poverty - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Depth of poverty indicators could, and indeed should, be included in any future targets, but the point - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It means regularly going to school hungry. It means not having the money for lunch. - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) In my view, that Government must see that reducing child poverty should be a very high priority. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) As is the convention in 30-minute debates, there will be no opportunity for the Member in charge to wind - Speech Link
2: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) The End Child Poverty coalition recently found that 11 children in a class of 30 in Greater Manchester - Speech Link
3: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) In 1999, the Labour Government made a remarkable pledge to end child poverty in a generation. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None thresholds should be very great indeed. - Speech Link
2: None on the risk of children being in poverty, and that is no different in Scotland. - Speech Link
3: None one-off payments here and there, the money should be put into the Scottish child payment.The only other - Speech Link
4: None something dramatic has been done and far fewer children are going cold and hungry in Scotland, and of - Speech Link
5: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) Before we end the session, if any witness has any further comment, we would be more than happy to have - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) Child poverty rates in Scotland sit at 24%, which is still far too high, but they should be seen in the - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) what the level of support should be. - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) We see pensioners going hungry and risking illness because they cannot afford to either eat or stay warm - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) The numbers accessing food banks are going up all the time. - Speech Link