New Clause 2
Child Poverty Bill
5:45 pm
Sally Keeble (Northampton North, Labour)
I asked the Library to produce similar figures—though not for the same purpose—at the time of the 10p tax issue or disaster, whatever one wants to call it. It was particularly marked that in two-parent households with children, income and poverty levels were entirely dependent on quite small changes to the number of hours worked. If both parents worked a few hours or one of them worked full time, the relative changes in the income level were marked. Could the hon. Gentleman say how the figures he has would look if one person did part-time work or if one worked full time, so that their entitlements changed?