Tackling Poverty in the UK

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:04 pm on 10 June 2010.

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Photo of Helen Goodman Helen Goodman Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1:04, 10 June 2010

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention.

The Minister talked about the importance of the problem of debt facing the very poorest people, and the Secretary of State mentioned credit unions in his speech on Tuesday night. The Labour Government introduced a growth fund for credit unions, and we put £86 million into credit unions across the country. I very much hope that the new Government will maintain that level of support in the public spending round that they are going to undertake.