“To ask the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will meet the Lord Bishop of Lichfield to discuss outreach work in that diocese.”
Answering Minister
the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners
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.