Oral Answers to Questions — Child Benefit

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 April 2001.

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Photo of Andrew Miller Andrew Miller Labour, Ellesmere Port and Neston 12:00, 2 April 2001

For the 10,500 families in Ellesmere Port and Neston who gain from child benefit, that sum represents an extra expenditure over and above inflation of more than £1.5 million since 1997. It is truly welcome. However, will my hon. Friend ensure that, when future programmes in other parts of the Department's work are considered, special attention is given to those areas of my constituency where there is still child poverty?