BARNSLEY MP Dan Jarvis has slammed the government for missing an opportunity to tackle child poverty, as his bill was given its second reading in Parliament.
Mr Jarvis launched a campaign after shocking figures revealed 5,114 children in Barnsley are living in poverty.
But he said the bill failed to progress because of Conservatives ‘talking out’ the bill, which reduced the time available for it to be debated and voted on.
In Mr Jarvis’s Barnsley Central constituency, 22.8 per cent of children live in poverty, with the figure rising to more than 35 per cent in some wards across the borough.
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