Sentences with phrase «child poverty target»

Instead of arriving at the position of either backing the government's welfare bill or forever being depicted as the friend of the scrounger, shadow ministers should have been making a big argument about the regressive nature of the Budget, the lamentable symbolism of effectively scrapping child poverty targets and the removal of in - work benefits to those eponymous hard - working families.

But the former paratrooper is returning to the frontline of politics as he takes on the government over child poverty targets

As the Government's welfare bill is in the Commons today, Harriet Harman has published a reasoned amendment laying out the bits of the bill Labour agrees with (the benefits cap, turning student maintenance grants to loans) and the bits it does not agree with (abolishing child poverty targets).

It is virtually identical to Child Poverty Act passed in 2010 by the last Labour government, which was rendered obsolete in 2015 when the Welfare Reform and Work Bill scrapped the child poverty target.

«The previous government significantly increased spending on benefits and tax credits for families with children, and child poverty fell by nearly a quarter between 1998 and 2009, but this was still not enough for the government to hit its child poverty targets.

If we are serious about hitting the 2002 child poverty target, and we reject means - testing, what does that mean for child benefit?

But actually in the last Labour government, increasing maternity leave, rights at work, introducing the national minimum wage disproportionately helped women and children, child poverty targets — things like that delivered actually tangible changes to peoples» lives.

The latest sally comes in an article by IPPR Director Nick Pearce, headlined «Labour must drop its child poverty target and find another way».

That is why we will keep the child poverty targets, and ask the Office for Budget Responsibility to monitor and report on progress.

She has said that the Tory plans for cutting tax credits and abandoning the child poverty target do both and Labour should strongly oppose them.»

Ms Harman said Labour would oppose some of the changes to tax credits, as well as the abolition of the child poverty targets, but that they wouldn't do «blanket opposition» because people don't want it.

For example, the IFS says that, in order to meet its child poverty target, the Government will need to spend an additional # 4 billion a year on transfer payments.

Mr Duncan Smith said that results have been flatlining despite the fact the welfare bill has increased by some 40 % in real terms since Tony Blair laid out the child poverty target in 1999.

The child poverty target links old and New Labour.