Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 26 October 2021Answered: 1 November 2021

Asked by

Laura Trott

ConservativeSevenoaks

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

The hon. Lady is right to mention the appalling record of the last Government, which saw 900,000 more children in poverty. We are already delivering 750 free breakfast clubs and boosting the minimum wage for more than 3 million people—the lowest-paid workers in our country—and the child poverty taskforce is looking at every lever that can be pulled. I am proud of the last Labour Government’s record on tackling poverty, and we will continue to do that in this Government.