DEBT RELIEF (DEVELOPING COUNTRIES) BILL SECOND READING
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household wages in the country in Torbay. So I congratulate the Member for North Norfolk in bringing forward this bill. If we don't measure itWe don't fill a develop strategy.
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we're not going to tackle it. So, thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.
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You might be asking why as an inland MP I might be responding today, but I intend
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through that over the coming minutes, but just before I begin, Madam Deputy
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we're diagnosing in this bill and that it seeks to recognizeand not in fact limited to coastal communities, which is why I've chosen to respond today. I think the issues being covered as part of the Bull and as part of this discussion are ones that affectcommunities up and down the country. Whether you're next to the
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many, many miles from it, because it's not living on the coast that inflicts particular
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on a place,
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people and its economy, but because of the fundamental imbalances that have plagued our country for decades. It's
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quote for me to read that a specific strategy is needed to tackle child poverty in coastal communitiesMy community isn't anywhere near the sea, but there are children in poverty in Ebbw Vale who desperately need help all the same. half of all the children in Ilkeston living low-income households. That's nearly double thenational figure. Opportunity needs to be created for young people right across the country. Mr Speaker, I'm taking an intervention. Yes, very happily. hon. Member for for mentioning young people, and would he agree with me that this government's changing of those parents who are on Universal Credit? So initially, before our government made those changes, if you're on Universal Credit and your student went to your child went to college, you would still get youras to credit payments. This government has brought that in for those young people taking up apprenticeships. So does he agree with me that that's a really helpful way to grow growth and private opportunities in deprived areas?thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and of course I agree
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Should concerns about pooreducational attainment in Coastalbe recognised in law, but not the real concern of parents in Erewash,
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about poor school standards where they live. The thing is,
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Madam Deputy Speaker, basically everywhere in this country has some claim or another to having been left behind. losses from certain elections and party
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