YORK Central MP Hugh Bayley has challenged the Prime Minister in the Commons over the Government’s decision to axe the Education Maintenance Allowance.
Mr Bayley told David Cameron there were more than 1,200 students at York College from families poor enough for them to qualify for the full EMA of £30 a week, and he had received 150 letters and emails asking for it to be retained.
The Prime Minister said he “absolutely accepted” more must be done to help people to get from the very bottom to the very top. He said that since 2004, child poverty had risen by 100,000 and inequality reached the highest level since 1961.
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