Emma Foody

Emma Foody

Labour (Co-op) — Cramlington and Killingworth

Speaking in the House of Commons on 8 December 2025

Debate

Child Poverty

Contribution

Child poverty in the north-east reached shameful levels under the previous Conservative Government, damaging the life chances of children and young people. As the Minister has set out, this Government are turning the tide with not only the removal of the two-child cap, but the expansion of free school meals and the introduction of breakfast clubs, lifting 550,000 children out of poverty. Can she set out how the child poverty taskforce will work with the north-east’s child poverty reduction unit to ensure that we can go even further in the north-east?

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