Unemployment and Poverty Traps

HC Deb 13 July 1988 vol 137 cc280-1W

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what effect his social security reforms have had on the unemployment and poverty traps.

Mr. Portillo

I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick) on 12 July at columns172–73.