6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Local Communities

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:38 pm on 4 May 2022.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 3:38, 4 May 2022

Would the Member acknowledge that, in the 1997 to 2010 Government, with Welsh Labour here and UK Labour at the UK Government, 1 million children were lifted out of absolute poverty—not relative poverty, absolute poverty? Independent figures will show that that was the case. The Institute for Fiscal Studies will show it. Does he agree with those figures, and what does he think made the difference?