POVERTY IN BRITAIN
Survey Of Big Families ■'Special Crspdt. N.Z.PA.) LONDON, May 4. An urgent inquiry to see how many large families in Britain are living in poverty is to be carried out next month by the Ministry of Pensions. The Pensions Minister (Miss Margaret Herbison) told the House of Commons that about 2750 sample families in different parts of the country would be visited. Welfare experts believe that large families on small incomes provide some of the most acute problems of poverty in the country. The inquiry follows a promise by the Prime Minister, in January, of a major review of the welfare system after a child poverty action group presented him with a casebook of hardship.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31052, 6 May 1966, Page 19
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