Spring Statement

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:17 pm on 13 March 2019.

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Photo of Karen Buck Karen Buck Labour, Westminster North 1:17, 13 March 2019

Is it not true that poverty in this country increasingly wears a working face, that we now have the highest ever proportion of families in poverty who are in work, that a family of four with two people working full time on the national minimum wage will be £600 a year worse off by 2020, thanks to the Chancellor’s benefit freeze, and that, because he will not tackle the benefit freeze, including on in-work benefits, families in that condition will see absolutely nothing as a consequence of today’s statement?