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Child Poverty Bill

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

508 c83-97 

Session

2009-10

Department

Treasury

Legislative stage

Lords amendments

Procedure

Timetabling of bills

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Child Poverty Bill. As amended in Grand Committee.
Monday, 8 February 2010
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Stephen Timms | 508 c84 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.

Bob Spink | 508 c87 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his efforts to improve the Bill, which was always a good Bill. ...

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Andrew Selous | 508 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He touches on an important point regarding the causes ...

William Cash | 508 c86 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to take part in the Committee. May I follow up my earl...

Andrew Selous | 508 c86 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to be back debating this important Bill, which has, as the Minister rightly says, e...

Speaker | 508 c84 (Link to this contribution) With this is will be convenient to take Lords amendments 2 to 12, 14, 15 and 19 to 21.

Stephen Timms | 508 c84 (Link to this contribution) Let me take the opportunity to thank hon. Members in this House and noble Lords in another place for...

Stephen Timms | 508 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) We are all concerned about the causes of poverty. It is certainly true that in some respects—particu...

William Cash | 508 c84-5 (Link to this contribution) In the context of the proposals to introduce these measures on child poverty, does the Minister acce...

Stephen Timms | 508 c85 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, of course, that all kinds of disadvantage can affect children. As the B...

John Mason | 508 c91 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that he is rather over-stressing the point? To most people, the words ...

William Cash | 508 c91 (Link to this contribution) I shall follow what my hon. Friend the Member for Henley (John Howell) said about causes, and I cong...

William Cash | 508 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with that at all. I am merely saying that in the Bill there seems to be a lack of ...

Andrew Selous | 508 c87-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that useful point. I shall speak shortly about the m...

John Howell | 508 c88 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend, I welcome Lords amendment 4 and its focus on those most at risk. However, does ...

Andrew Selous | 508 c88-9 (Link to this contribution) As always, my hon. Friend makes a good and important point. He will know that I have continually rai...

Steve Webb | 508 c89 (Link to this contribution) Like both speakers so far in this debate, I welcome this group of amendments that their Lordships ha...

Andrew Selous | 508 c89 (Link to this contribution) That is churlish.

Steve Webb | 508 c89-90 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that that is churlish, but it would be nice to think that the 2010 report wi...

John Howell | 508 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) It was a great pleasure to serve on the Bill Committee, and it would be a little churlish to attack ...

Helen Goodman | 508 c93 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right: the earlier we start on such programmes, the better. That is why, for e...

Bob Spink | 508 c93 (Link to this contribution) I support the Bill, even though I do not support what the Minister said about Mrs. Thatcher. Does th...

Steve Webb | 508 c93 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify the roll-out process? Will half of local authorities be covered? If not, w...

Helen Goodman | 508 c93 (Link to this contribution) If I could return to that point, I should be able to give the hon. Gentleman a fuller response. Hon...

Speaker | 508 c92 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendments 16 to 18.

Helen Goodman | 508 c93 (Link to this contribution) Lords amendments 13 and 16 to 18 would make the legislative changes necessary to implement the annou...

Stephen Timms | 508 c92 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for the move that he made in Committee, which we did, indeed, re...

Helen Goodman | 508 c92 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 13.

Graham Stuart | 508 c92 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the change of heart on mental health. Will the Minister share with the House the rationale...

Andrew Selous | 508 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) We welcome this group of amendments in relation to free school lunches—and milk, as the Minister has...

Steve Webb | 508 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) I well recall the statistics during the 1980s, when there were rather more people who simply did not...

Andrew Selous | 508 c96 (Link to this contribution) I take the Minister's point—she is right that these are significant amounts of money. To use the hel...

Helen Goodman | 508 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) The calculations that officials have done using the models that we have suggests, as I think that I ...

Graham Stuart | 508 c94 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the most exciting prospects for an incoming Conservative Gover...

Andrew Selous | 508 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) As ever, my hon. Friend gets to the heart of the issue, and he makes a very important point. An urge...

Steve Webb | 508 c95 (Link to this contribution) Hitherto we have debated the Schleswig-Holstein question, and tonight we have the Bedfordshire quest...

Stephen Timms | 508 c95 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recall, as I do, that the number of people facing a 70 per cent. withdrawal ...

John Howell | 508 c85 (Link to this contribution) I am very interested in what the Minister has just said. Does he not accept that Lords amendments 1 ...

Stephen Timms | 508 c92 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I welcome the support for the amendments that has been expressed across...

Helen Goodman | 508 c96 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I would like to respond to the points that have bee...

Subjects

Children Parents Poverty Public consultation Mental health Standards

Legislation

Child Poverty Bill 2008-09 to 2009-10

Link

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