Can I welcome the statement by the Minister? Far too many children live in poor households. Tonight in Swansea some children will go to bed hungry. Even more mothers will go to bed hungry. Some will go to bed in a cold and damp house. Some children will change their school sometimes as often as every year as their parents move from one short-term privately rented house to another. There are now more children living in poverty in working households than in workless households, mainly due to the prevalence of low-paid, insecure work. What insecure work can mean is that someone has low guaranteed weekly hours, such as seven or 10 hours per week, possibly in a shop you'll be visiting in the run-up to Christmas. Most weeks they will work between 30 and 40 hours at the minimum wage and be able to survive. If they go back to their minimum guaranteed hours for one week, then they have a financial crisis. They'll have to access the food bank and be unable to afford either the rent or electricity tokens.

I will again press the Government for two actions that I believe will help alleviate this hardship. The first is to build large numbers of energy-efficient council houses. That will get people out of the very expensive damp and cold privately rented houses, which will then be able to go back into the private sector and become owner-occupied again.

Holidays are a time of great concern to parents. If you talk to parents in some of the poorer areas of Swansea, the thing they hate most is the summer holidays. Ten extra meals per child per week are needed. I will again ask the Welsh Government to fund free breakfasts and continue the free school meals through the school holidays, starting with the summer holidays next year. This would be the one action that would have the most beneficial effect on people living in poverty, which far too many of my constituents are.