“To ask the hon. Member for City of Chester, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Committee has made on the potential effect of proposed voter ID laws on electoral participation.”
Answering Minister
the hon. Member for City of Chester, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Employment (Alison McGovern)
The two-child benefit cap was introduced by the Conservative party 10 years ago. Its period in office saw child poverty rise to over 4 million and one in three of our children arriving at primary school not ready to learn. As soon as the Secretary of State and I were appointed, we got to work to establish our child poverty taskforce, as promised in Labour’s manifesto, and those efforts are ongoing.