I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor for raising the point I raised with Treasury Ministers yesterday about child benefit. Surely raising child benefit by at least £10 a week, as recommended by the Child Poverty Action Group, during this time—children are at home and the price of food is going up, as they will not now get free school meals or meals at school—would be quick and easy to do, unlike other schemes which are taking longer to set up?
Financial and Social Emergency Support Package
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Ruth Cadbury
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 25 March 2020.
It occurred during Opposition day on Financial and Social Emergency Support Package.
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