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• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 23 July 2020

Nicky Gavron AM: Thank you, Chair. Panel, good morning. I have seen that we have had quite a lot of questions on the arts and creative sectors, but I want to drill down now. This morning the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee published its report on some of what we have been drilling down on. I would like to ask a number of you to think about this question, but perhaps I could start with Sam Gurney from the TUC. We know that the self-employment income support scheme is available only if you get more than half your...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

These families are generally led by women; I wondered how significant you thought the gender pay-gap in London was, which is increasing - widening - here, whereas it isn't in the rest of the country. I understand that the most typical job for a woman here is paid at £5.30 an hour, whereas the most typical job for a man is paid at £17.50 an hour.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

You've just said that the proportion of children living below the poverty line in lone-parent families is high ' I do not know if you have the exact figures?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

Scandinavian countries have poverty rates which are close to zero, so it obviously is eminently preventable. Would you like to comment on that?