END CHILD POVERTY KEEP THE PROMISE CAMPAIGN

Motion Text

That this House notes the Prime Minister stated in his speech to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester on 23rd September that `because child poverty demeans Britain, we have committed our party to tackle and to end it', and announced his intention to introduce ground-breaking legislation to enshrine in law Labour's pledge to end child poverty; welcomes this commitment, while recognising that one in three children in the UK still live in poverty; congratulates the organisers of the march in London on 4th October with the theme of End Child Poverty-Keep the Promise; further notes the importance of the petition that supports this campaign; further notes that 110 organisations are part of the campaign-organising coalition; calls for special attention to be paid to the necessity for warm, dry and safe homes, a nutritious and balanced diet, access to books and computers, at least one holiday a year, access to public transport and safe places for recreation; and calls upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make ending child poverty a priority in all future budgets.