Mark Ferguson
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Stephen Morgan
My hon. Friend is right to raise the difference that a Labour Government make and the scar of child poverty on our society. I assure him that we are working across the Department to deliver what he described.
Mark Ferguson (Gateshead Central and Whickham) (Lab)
This change will make a difference to the lives of thousands of children in my Gateshead constituency, and may I say it would have been hugely welcomed by my grandmother who was a Gateshead dinner lady? Does the Minister agree that through 30 hours of free childcare, a limit on the number of branded school items, free breakfast clubs and lifting 100,000 children out of poverty, Labour is the party for children and families?
Stephen Morgan
We said that we would be a child-centred Government, and that is what we are delivering. The announcement is testament to that.