Part of Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at on 18 March 2024.
Stuart McDonald
Scottish National Party, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
A total of 100,000 children will be kept clear of poverty this year thanks to the Scottish Government’s policies—primarily the Scottish child payment. Surely the Secretary of State must now look to rolling out some of our policies in other parts of the UK and, at the very least, ditch the two-child limit, which deliberately forces children into poverty.
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