2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:19 pm on 11 June 2019.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 3:19, 11 June 2019

Well, Llywydd, it's quite staggering that having already tried to raise the issue of poverty with the First Minister, the Member tries to raise it again with me this afternoon. We've made it more than clear that, of course, there's something that the Member's own party could do in order to help prevent poverty, and that would be to back Welsh Government's calls to halt universal credit roll-out, which is clearly devastating families across Wales, and to stop its austerity agenda, which is having an incredibly harmful impact on people and is directly responsible for those poverty figures that the Member quotes.