Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Ian Lucas (Labour), on Wednesday, 20 June 2007, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 44 members in total.

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CHILD POVERTY AND BENEFITS

That this House welcomes the Government's commitment to eradicate child poverty by 2020; applauds the fall in the number of children in poverty by 700,000 since 1999, but notes with concern that this figure was 300,000 short of the Government's stated target; suggests that an effective policy to achieve the target would be to disregard child benefit as income for the purposes of assessing housing benefit and council tax benefit; further notes that according to Department of Work and Pensions' figures the cost of implementing such a policy would be ??300 million; and urges the Government to consider the introduction of such a policy as soon as possible.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1736 

Session

2006-07

Other sponsors

Gordon Prentice

Ann Cryer

David Drew

Mark Durkan

Mike Weir

Subjects

Children Child benefit Poverty

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk