Extract from Second reading (and remaining stages) (Lords) of the Finance Bill - July 17
Saturday, 18 July 2020 09:04
Baroness Uddin [V]:...According to the Government’s Social Mobility
Commission, 600,000 more children are now living in relative
poverty than in 2012. Their plight will be further exacerbated by
benefit changes and coronavirus, with 45% from minority communities
more likely to live in poverty in comparison to 26% of their white
neighbours. Does this period, the most challenging in terms of
addressing poverty and social injustice, warrant an equal and
absolute commitment to redress the...Request free trial
[V]:...According to the Government’s Social Mobility Commission,
600,000 more children are now living in relative poverty than in
2012. Their plight will be further exacerbated by benefit changes
and coronavirus, with 45% from minority communities more likely to
live in poverty in comparison to 26% of their white neighbours.
Does this period, the most challenging in terms of addressing
poverty and social injustice, warrant an equal and absolute
commitment to redress the effects of social injustice and
prejudice, as well as class, race and faith discriminations? What
impact assessment has been made of the Bill on child poverty and
the well-being of vulnerable families and people with disabilities
and autism in those communities which have
excessively experienced hardship?
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