Shabana Mahmood MP, Labour’s Shadow Treasury Minister, responding to the Child Poverty Action Group and Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s third ‘Cost of a Child’ report, said:

“This report shows the cost-of-living crisis facing millions of families. While millionaires have been given a huge tax cut families with children have been hit hardest of all by this government’s choices.

“Labour would back families and make work pay by expanding free childcare for working parents, increasing the minimum wage and introducing a lower 10p starting rate of tax.”