Tackling Poverty

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:23 pm on 11 June 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:23, 11 June 2019

Llywydd, we use child poverty indicators to measure our effectiveness in mitigating the impact of poverty created by the UK Conservative Government. Freezing and reducing benefits, penalising children through the family cap and punishing families through the bedroom tax are amongst the impacts we have to combat through our mitigation measures.