Oral Question·Department for Work and Pensions
“What assessment she has made of future trends in the level of child poverty.”
Tabled: 26 May 2022Answered: 6 June 2022
Asked by
Matthew Pennycook
Labour — Greenwich and Woolwich
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mike Tapp)
Under the previous Government, we saw 2.5 million people arrive in just four years—that is one in 30 people in the country at this time. This Government have brought migration down by 82% since its peak and by 41% in the past year.