HC Deb 29 July 1998 vol 317 c333W
Mr. Goggins

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans his Department has to mark 17 October as the World Day for the Eradication of Poverty. [53006]

Mr. Denham

The Government are making tackling poverty a priority for every day through their policies designed to help people into work where appropriate and to make extra help available where it is not, such as the guaranteed minimum income recently announced for pensioners.