Alison McGovern
Alison McGovern MP
Labour
•House of Commons•ActiveMember since 3 July 2024
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Welfare Spending
14/07/2025 • Commons
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
22/06/2025 • Commons
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...
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
22/06/2025 • Commons
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,...
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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Universal Credit: Support into Work
22/06/2025 • Commons
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...
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
22/06/2025 • Commons
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...
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...
Disabled People in Poverty
16/06/2025 • Commons
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...
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
11/05/2025 • Commons
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...
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...
Education, Employment and Training: Kensington and Bayswater
11/05/2025 • Commons
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...
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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Education, Employment and Training Support: Makerfield
11/05/2025 • Commons
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
View full contribution →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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Young People not in Education, Employment or Training
11/05/2025 • Commons
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...
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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