Alison McGovern

Alison McGovern

Alison McGovern MP

Labour
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Member since 3 July 2024

Recent Debate Contributions

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Welfare Spending

14/07/2025Commons

14 contributions
The hon. Gentleman is not the only person who worries about it, and I will receive his intervention as a submission to the child poverty taskforce. ...
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I did say that I would give way to the hon. Gentleman, so let me do so before I finish my speech.
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Child Poverty Taskforce

22/06/2025Commons

4 contributions
As Labour’s manifesto said, the emergency food parcels that we have seen are a “moral scar” on our country. That is why I am glad that, as Ministers h...
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Child poverty is a significant challenge in the north-east, and that is why it is right that Mayor Kim McGuinness participated in an early session of ...
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Topical Questions

22/06/2025Commons

3 contributions
Through the child poverty taskforce, we have been looking at the issue of incomes versus expenditures. We are taking steps urgently where we are able,...
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This Government will always have the backs of working people, and I believe there will be a statement shortly on our modern industrial strategy. I kno...
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As the Secretary of State set out some moments ago, we are introducing the biggest improvement to employment support that the country has known. We wi...
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Our Department is determined to serve businesses well. If the right hon. Member would like to help his local jobcentre do that and get good jobs into ...
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Support into Work

22/06/2025Commons

2 contributions
If a person is out of work and is offered a job, they are required to accept appropriate work that is offered to them. The focus of our Get Britain Wo...
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The right hon. Gentleman mentions a problem that I think is central to the situation that we have inherited. That is why, as I mentioned in response t...
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Disabled People in Poverty

16/06/2025Commons

5 contributions
I will wind up, because we are out of time. I have no doubt that these discussions will continue over the coming weeks, and I look forward to engaging...
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I thank the hon. Member for his point, because it is one of the other things I wanted to clarify. A number of Members have mentioned money being taken...
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Topical Questions

11/05/2025Commons

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That is exactly the point of our changes to jobcentres and the £1 billion of investment in employment support—so that we can understand the pathways t...
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I refer the hon. Gentleman to some of the responses we have already given. The DWP and the DFE are working together closely as we change apprenticeshi...
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I have said already in this session of questions that we have changed the DWP to serve employers much better, and that is an important shift. I unders...
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I thank my hon. Friend both for his question and for going to see the team at the North Kensington jobcentre; there is a really dedicated team of five...
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I pay tribute to all those from the hon. Gentleman’s constituency who have been part of building our whole country. We work very closely with
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I thank my hon. Friend for that question because, as the Prime Minister says, we are the party of the builders. As my hon. Friend says, the Labour par...
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The House may know that, on coming into office, the Secretary of State and I totally changed the way the Department for Work and Pensions approaches e...
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The House will know that we have consultations in a number of policy areas relating to my hon. Friend’s question. As I have said, in the end, young pe...
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