4. Statement by the Minister for Housing and Local Government: Child Poverty Progress Report 2019

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:04 pm on 10 December 2019.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 4:04, 10 December 2019

The fact that child poverty in Wales has risen should, as the Minister says, concern each and every one of us. But I wonder if she could tell me why she states that the employment rate in Wales is now higher than the UK as a whole, when the latest figures published by the Senedd Research Service show that the employment rate in Wales is lower than in Scotland, England and the UK as a whole, and doesn't mention that those same figures show that economic inactivity was up 24,000 to 441,000, or failed to mention that Wales, after two decades of Labour Government, has the lowest wages across the GB nations.