All children living in poverty in Dwyfor Meirionnydd could be helped through a Welsh Child Payment Plan, according to MP Liz Saville Roberts.

Introducing a £35 per week payment for every child in low income families in Wales could lift the 3,525 children currently in poverty in Dwyfor Meirionnydd out of poverty, Plaid Cymru has said.

According to data from End Child Poverty, there were 29.7 per cent of children living in poverty in Dwyfor Meirionnydd in 2017/18.

Ms Saville Roberts said: “One of Plaid Cymru’s main policies during the general election last year was to fight and eradicate child poverty in Wales.

“The truth is, the child poverty crisis we are now in is a direct result of a neglectful Westminster and the impact of the Conservatives’ cruel cuts and changes to welfare coupled with twenty years of inefficient and apathetic governing by Welsh Labour.”

Mabon ap Gwynfor, who is standing for election in Dwyfor Meirionnydd in Wales election next year, added that the proposed payment would be beneficial to the young people who need it.

He said: “A Plaid Cymru government would make lifting children out of poverty one of its main priorities. One of the ways we have been discussing doing this to potentially introduce a new Welsh Child Payment for low-income families.

“A payment of £35 a week for every child would drastically transform the lives of young people across Wales and providing them with the best start in life they deserve.

“Unlike Labour, Plaid Cymru won’t just manage problems. We will solve them. Poverty is a political choice. In 2021, Plaid Cymru will make sure that Wales will choose differently.”