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Poverty Record

Volume 301: debated on Tuesday 25 November 1997

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will place in the Library a copy of the Government's response to recent litigation on Britain's poverty record in connection with the 1976 UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. [17229]

The UK submitted its third compliance report on the 1976 UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in February 1996. That report, which has been placed in the Library, has been considered by an ICESCR Committee who are now taking oral evidence from both Non-Governmental Organisations and the Government.