Part of Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at on 18 March 2024.
Mel Stride
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The hon. Lady raises the same point as her colleague, Stuart C. McDonald, about the two-child limit. I will not detain the House by repeating exactly the same answer, other than to agree passionately with her that one child in poverty is one too many, and to say that, although we have further to go, it is important to recognise that we have reduced the number of children in absolute poverty, after housing costs, by 400,000 since 2010.