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Poverty

Volume 297: debated on Monday 30 June 1997

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22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will make a statement on her priorities for the reduction of poverty in the United Kingdom. [4358]

Our priorities in tackling low incomes are to help young people, the long-term unemployed and lone parents into work, and to get help to up to a million pensioners not claiming the Income Support to which they are entitled.