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Debate between Andrew Western and Gregor Poynton
Monday 23rd June 2025

(3 days, 6 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Western Portrait Andrew Western
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I am very happy to raise with the Home Office the issue that the hon. Gentleman has highlighted, but I would say to him, and indeed to his colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench, that what genuinely undermines confidence in the welfare system is the record of the previous Government, who allowed welfare fraud to spiral towards £10 billion a year and failed to take the powers needed, as we are doing now, to get that number down.

Gregor Poynton Portrait Gregor Poynton (Livingston) (Lab)
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2. What steps she is taking to reduce the number of children in poverty in the Livingston constituency.