7. Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Tackling Poverty

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:29 pm on 5 June 2019.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 6:29, 5 June 2019

Do you acknowledge research, equally worrying, in 2008 by the Bevan Foundation and Save the Children, which found that one in four children in Wales were living in poverty—the relative poverty measure—and that 90,000 in 2008 were living in severe poverty, the highest level in the UK? So, this isn't a new problem, and it's definitely a problem we've got to grasp.