Poverty: Children
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing child poverty on the economy.
Answered by James Murray
The Child Poverty Action Group estimate the cost to the country at £40bn per year, which is one of the reasons why the government is removing the two-child limit and lifting 550,000 children out of poverty in the final year of this Parliament.
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