Thank you for contacting me about child poverty. I proudly stood on a manifesto that pledged to continue efforts to reduce poverty, including child poverty.
I firmly believe that children should grow up in an environment with no limits to their potential. First, thank you for highlighting the statistics for our local area. I would emphasise that my colleagues at the Department for Work and Pensions have been unable to assess the robustness of Loughborough University’s modelling, as their methodological choices have not been shared.
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