§ Lord Higginsasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Answer by Baroness Hollis of Heigham on 28 September to a Starred Question by Baroness Thornton (HL Deb. cols, 942–43), why the Chancellor of the Exchequer said in Brighton on 25 September that there are "already 1.2 million children lifted out of poverty" when her replies suggest that this is not true. [HL3937]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security (Baroness Hollis of Heigham)I refer the noble Lord to my answer to him on this point on 28 September 2000, vol. 616, cols. 942–943.