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HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI agree with my hon. Friend, and I know from previous conversations that he worked in a Sure Start centre and was involved in the delivery of those services. Best Start family…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI have heard from so many school leaders, teachers and staff across our country about the impact that child poverty has on their ability to do their jobs. They do amazing things…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyThe hon. Member is right to say that the majority of children in poverty are living in working families. It is an artificial political dividing line to suggest anything other than…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyMy hon. Friend is right to say that child poverty blights the life chances of children right across our country, including in communities that might otherwise appear affluent.…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyThere we are: the true face of the Tory party, describing people who are in work in that kind of way. We will always back working people. I would just point out to the hon.…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyThis is a UK wide-strategy, and we will continue to work with the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to bring down poverty in all of our…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyWhen the hon. Lady stood up, I thought she was about to congratulate the UK Government on lifting the two-child limit—something I have heard her talk about a lot in this House,…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI am grateful to the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, who has long campaigned on the important relationship between poverty and health inequalities. Through the…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI am grateful to the hon. Lady for the work she does in this important area. As she knows, parents will save up to £500 a year as a result of the plans we have set out for action…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyIt is a Labour Government who are lifting the two-child limit and who will ensure that children in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland get the support they deserve. The…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI would be happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss that further. A key commitment that we made, through the development of this strategy, was to make the system of childcare…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI am sure that the hon. Gentleman has made his views known to Ministers at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, but I will ensure that they are passed along.…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that poverty scars the life chances of children. It has always been the moral mission of the Labour party, and it always will be the moral…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI recognise that even in more seemingly affluent communities there can be pockets of deprivation, and many children can still be living in poverty. It is right that we tackle…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyWe are investing £500 million more to ensure that we expand Best Start family hubs to local authorities that do not have that provision. By the end of the Parliament, 1,000 hubs…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyIn launching the first phase—the early adopter phase—of our plan for 750 free breakfast clubs, we wanted to ensure that we covered schools in a range of different communities and…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyMy hon. Friend is doing tremendous work in that area through the APPG. I would be more than happy to ensure that the Department—through officials or Ministers—continues to work…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyThe hon. Gentleman will know, as I have previously told him, that I also visited Northern Ireland through the work of the child poverty taskforce to meet campaigners, charities…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyI would be happy to meet my hon. Friend. I know he has done an incredible amount to champion the life chances of children in his community, which covers many towns and villages…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyYes. Like my hon. Friend, I am always ambitious to do more to lift more children out of poverty and to create better conditions to tackle the root causes of poverty. This…08 Dec 2025