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State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates As I have set out, we are facing what is being called a Budget. It is a major fiscal event and many decisions will be taken within it.
State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates I welcome the question from the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee.
State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates That is simply an ingenious way—I congratulate the hon. Member—of asking precisely the same question.
State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates That is a truly constructive intervention because, as my hon.
State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention and I recognise the solid and important work that she has done in this area.
State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates I thank the hon. Lady for that clarification and I accept the point she makes.
State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates Thank you, Mr Speaker. The points raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham) are well made.
State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates The hon. Lady asks from a sedentary position why poverty is going up, and I will come to poverty in a moment.
State Pension Triple Lock | Commons debates Those figures are simple facts about what has happened to absolute poverty across the period that I quoted.
