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Child Poverty in Scotland

I am sure that you are indeed acquainted, as I am, with the problems that share fisherman face, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Government ought to be focusing on two opportunities: the equalisation of child benefit, which has been referred to, and the introduction of seasonal grants, which, Save the Children UK predicts, would lift an extra 440,000 children out of poverty and would go a long way to ensuring that that irreducible core, as some might see it, can be tackled.