Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 03 March 2011
03 Mar 2011 · S3 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Scottish Executive Question Time
Child Poverty
General Questions
We will continue to work with Save the Children and all the other key stakeholders that are involved in trying to tackle the unacceptable issue of child poverty. It is an issue that cuts across the whole of Government. The contributions from the education, housing, economic development, transport and justice sectors are all important elements in our child poverty strategy.
Some of the welfare reforms that were recently announced from Westminster, however, will be damaging in relation to child poverty, rather than assist in eradicating it.
Some of the welfare reforms that were recently announced from Westminster, however, will be damaging in relation to child poverty, rather than assist in eradicating it.
In the same item of business
Mr Frank McAveety (Glasgow Shettleston) (Lab)
Lab
2. To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to Save the Children’s report, “Severe Child Poverty in Scotland”. (S3O-13140)
The Minister for Housing and Communities (Alex Neil)
SNP
Our vision is for a Scotland where no children are disadvantaged by poverty, and we recognise the particular importance of helping those who are in severe po...
Mr McAveety
Lab
One of the key ways to tackle generational poverty is to invest increasingly in the early years and in the school estate at primary level. In the east end of...
Alex Neil
SNP
We will continue to work with Save the Children and all the other key stakeholders that are involved in trying to tackle the unacceptable issue of child pove...