I wrote to the Noble Peer on this issue on 4th<\/sup> December 2014. I have placed a copy of this letter in the library of the House and have also attached it to this response.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the comments by Lord Freud in the Grand Committee debate on the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Targets) Regulations 2014, that the facts Lord McAvoy had quoted were \"simply not true\" (HL Deb, 25 November, col GC 263), how they were not true.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what is their response to the report by the London School of Economics and the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex on changes to benefits, income tax and income distribution.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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