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

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:00 pm on 5 June 2019.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 7:00, 5 June 2019

Do you recognise that child poverty in Wales started rising in 2004, that it was already at the highest levels in the UK before the credit crunch and that, a decade ago, 90,000 children in Wales were in severe poverty and over one in four were living in relative poverty? This didn't begin in 2010.