Tackling Poverty in the UK

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:33 pm on 10 June 2010.

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Photo of Chris Grayling Chris Grayling The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions 12:33, 10 June 2010

We should always seek to learn from the past. We will seek not to make the mistakes of the past 10 years, when billions of pounds were spend on employment programmes that failed to break down the culture of worklessness in many of our communities.