Recent Speeches and Appearances

I thank my hon. Friend for his typically astute question and for his advice in this area over a number of months.

The reason for that—I am feeling rather less generous—is that we have seen Labour’s plans in the past, and no Labour Government have ever

Let me take the second of my hon. Friend’s points first. As I have outlined, there is always human intervention when it is appropriate.

Child poverty and its reduction is absolutely core to the mission of my Department, which is why we have focused on cost of living paymen

I think that our record is extremely clear.

No, I am afraid that I cannot agree with that at all.

The common theme in all the questions that we have had on this substantive question is a lack of memory as to what happened under the pre

Heaven forbid that we do have another Labour Government, Mr Speaker, because I have just set out the case against the last one and their

I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman that one child in destitution is one too many. One person in poverty is one too many.

Very briefly, I have set out our employment record, which we are proud of.