Cost of Living 2025-10-22
2025-10-22
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Q1
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In the context of efforts to reduce living costs in Scotland, Ben Lake raised concerns about specific policies affecting child poverty. He noted that Scotland is unique within the UK for its current government type and child poverty rate.
Scotland is the only part of the United Kingdom where child poverty is falling, and it is also the only part of Great Britain with a non-Labour Government. I am sure the Minister agrees that the rest of the UK deserves better, so will she be calling on the Chancellor to scrap the two-child cap in the upcoming Budget?
A child poverty strategy is on the way and will be released in due course. I can underscore our commitment to fighting child poverty with every breath we have. That is what Labour Governments have always done, and it is what this Labour Government will do, too.
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Assessment & feedback
The specific request for the removal of the two-child cap was not addressed directly
Commitment To Child Poverty Without Specifics
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Q2
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Referencing an upcoming march in Edinburgh, Brian Leishman highlighted the issue of food insecurity affecting one in six adults in Scotland, approximately 1.2 million people.
This weekend, thousands of people will march in Edinburgh to say that Scotland demands better. We are right to do so, because the Poverty Alliance says that one in six adults in Scotland—around 1.2 million people—are living in food insecurity. What are the Scotland Office and the wider Labour Government doing to end food insecurity for Scots?
Our commitment to ending poverty is clear. We have had a clear focus on living standards; work is increasingly now paying; and we are focusing on ensuring that none of Scotland’s children is subject to the poverty that the hon. Member so vividly describes.
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Assessment & feedback
The specific measures for food insecurity were not addressed directly
Focus On General Living Standards And Child Poverty
Response accuracy