Work and Pensions

Sarah Newton Excerpts

Tuesday 5th February 2019 Ministerial Corrections

The following is an extract from a debate on Disability Support on 19 December 2018.

[The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work (Sarah Newton)]

Looking at all four measures of low-income poverty—before and after housing costs, and on a relative and on an absolute basis—poverty for people in families with a disabled person has improved since 2010 on three of the four measures, and there was no change in the fourth. I am not complacent. One person living in poverty in this country is one person too many, which is why we are determined to do everything we can to put more money in people’s pockets.

[Official Report, 19 December 2018, Vol. 651, c. 944.]

Letter of correction from Sarah Newton:

An error has been identified in my response to the debate.

The correct wording should have been:

[Sarah Newton]

Looking at all four measures of low-income poverty—before and after housing costs, and on a relative and on an absolute basis—poverty for people in families with a disabled person has improved since 2010 on three of the four measures, and there was an increase in the fourth. I am not complacent. One person living in poverty in this country is one person too many, which is why we are determined to do everything we can to put more money in people’s pockets.