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the Bishop of Durham: ...-down economics renders those in poverty invisible. Like Lazarus waiting to eat what fell from the rich man’s table, this policy does not address urgent needs. These people cannot wait for the benefits of this economic policy to trickle down; this is especially the case for children and young people. We all get only one childhood, which shapes the rest of our lives. Children do not have...
Lord Hylton: My Lords, what plans do the Government have two remove, or at least phase out, the two-child cap on welfare benefit? Would that not be a great help to larger families?
Alison Thewliss: ...reassurance or give hope to ordinary people—folks who are struggling to get by in broke, broken Britain. Families are unable to put food on the table and heat their homes, punished by the Tory benefit cap and the two-child limit. Those policies are driving up child poverty and the Chancellor should be scrapping them, not the bankers’ bonus cap. For indebted households already...
Victoria Prentis: The latest statistics on the number of children who are in low-income in Feltham and Heston constituency can be found in the annual publication: Children in low income families: local area statistics. Statistics covering up until financial year ending 2021 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-inc ome-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2021 This...
Nicola Sturgeon: ...it was not necessary. We are all aware of the hardship that is felt by many families right now, and in particular by single parents. The Scottish Government’s very significant actions to tackle child poverty, alongside our interventions to mitigate the cost of living crisis, are providing direct support. For example, our five family benefits, which will shortly be worth more than...
David Rutley: No specific assessment has been made relating to Barking constituency. However, the latest statistics on the number and proportion of children who are in low income families by local area, covering the seven years, 2014/15 to 2020/21, can be found in the annual publication: Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014 to 2021 -...
John Swinney: ...represents an unprecedented challenge. Families face a winter when they cannot afford to heat their homes, businesses face energy bills that they cannot pay and parents are struggling to feed their children. That is the reality of the crisis. Although we are a long way from the full effects being known, last month, the Bank of England set out the reality that the United Kingdom is facing a...
Clare Adamson: ...was thrown on the scrap heap, along with the livelihoods and aspirations of my community. That is a mistake that the Scottish Government will not make. I and my colleague Marion Fellows will host two cost of living events in the constituency for our constituents. The first will take place in the Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health wellbeing centre and cafe in Wishaw this Friday, and...
Michelle Thomson: ...enough due to supply chain disruption, labour market shortages and other disruptive effects of a Tory Brexit. Long-term issues of low levels of investment have meant that there is little spare capacity to respond to increases in demand in some sectors, and a raging debate is now on-going, albeit not here, about the inflationary effects of quantitative easing. Those fundamental issues are...
Sadiq Khan: ...the Cost of Living Hub to help Londoners struggling with the spiralling cost of living to access advice and support. The hub helps Londoners find advice near them and signposts information about benefits, energy debt, mental health and crisis support. It was developed and built inhouse by Greater London Authority (GLA) officers at no additional cost. Between £100,000 and £150,000 has...
Sadiq Khan: I am committed to supporting London’s families through the cost-of-living crisis, which is why I am calling for the introduction of universal free school meals (FSM) for primary school children. Research shows that making FSM universal helps reduce stigma and boosts take up among families who need them most. In Newham, take up of school meals rose from 45% to 90% following the introduction...
Munira Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households were exempt from the two-child Universal Credit benefits cap because they (a) have a child arrangement order, (b) have been appointed as a child's guardian, (c) have a special guardianship order, (d) are entitled to Guardian's Allowance and (e) have applied successfully using form IC1 as of 14 July 2022.
Beth Winter: ...time last year. In Cynon, 81% of people reported that the cost of living crisis is impacting on their mental health, 78% are worried about paying the bills in the next 12 months, 61% of those on benefits have had to skip meals in the last 12 months and over half have had to borrow money in the last year. We also asked questions about the next 12 months, which were even bleaker in terms of...
Baroness Crawley: ...many decades. I also thank her for her excellent, probing opening remarks today. Most of us speaking see ourselves as second-wave feminists. We fought for equal pay and conditions and for universal childcare in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of us pitched up at Greenham Common; some of us burned our bras—not all of us, obviously. Fast-forward to the 2020s and we realise that we can never be...
Robert Halfon: I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for the time today, and I thank the officers and members of the Committee for working so hard on this report on educational outcomes for children in care. We found widespread state failure to ensure that looked-after children receive a quality education. The state repeatedly fails to act as a pushy enough corporate parent when it comes to the...
the Bishop of Durham: My Lords, I rise to speak to this Bill with a degree of curiosity. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, for introducing it. Children, and the family who cares for them, should be particularly supported in their early years. This is when their most important development happens, so we must want them to thrive. These early years are still too often overlooked in the impact they have on both the...
Sadiq Khan: ...long coming, it also fails to meet the needs of some of the most vulnerable households and leaves several damaging policies in place. I remain particularly concerned about low-income families with children who have received no extra help with the additional costs they face running a family home. London has long had the nation’s highest child poverty rates and demand from households with...
Jessica Morden: ...are really going through; refusing, as others have said, to bring in an emergency budget; and raising taxes during a cost of living crisis. After Ofgem announced increases to the domestic energy cap, Rebecca Evans, the Welsh Finance Minister, set out a £330 million cost of living package of support, which goes beyond that announced by the UK Government. The Welsh Government provided the...
Kirsty Blackman: ...were buried. Audit Scotland recently audited the Scottish social security system. It said: “The Scottish Government has continued to successfully deliver new and complex social security benefits in challenging circumstances. This is a significant achievement. There is a conscious focus on the needs of service users, building on the principles of dignity, fairness, and respect. People are...
Munira Wilson: ...That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for a statutory definition of kinship care; to make provision about allowances and parental leave for kinship carers who take on responsibility for children whose parents are unable to care for them; to make provision about education in relation to children who are looked after by a kinship carer; and for connected purposes. April—not her...
