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1130744

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of housing costs on the level of child poverty; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	261484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department looks at rates of child poverty both before and after housing costs. Absolute child poverty after housing costs has reduced from 28% in 2009/10 to 26% in 2017/18. However, this is higher than the absolute child poverty rate before housing costs which was 18% in 2017/18, suggesting that housing costs have an effect on rates of children in low income households.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/06/2019 15:43:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1127442

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 16 May (HL15606), whether they will now answer the question put.
tabling member printed	Baroness Primarolo
uin	HL15853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The information on numbers of children entering and exiting poverty is not available. However, figures for percentages of children moving in and out of poverty are collected in the Income Dynamics publication. These are available in Table 8.1, and in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010-2011 to 2011-2012</p></td><td><p>2011-2012 to 2012-2013</p></td><td><p>2012-2013 to 2013-2014</p></td><td><p>2013-2014 to 2014-2015</p></td><td><p>2014-2015 to 2015-2016</p></td><td><p>2015-2016 to 2016-2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>% children entering poverty</strong></p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>% children exiting poverty</strong></p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The percentage of children entering poverty is the percentage of only those children who were <em>not in poverty</em> in the earlier year but who were in poverty the following year. The percentage of children exiting poverty is the percentage of only those children who were <em>in poverty </em>in the earlier year but who were out of poverty the following year. Entry and exit rates are very different (since entry / exit rates are expressed as a percentage of only those not previously in poverty / previously in poverty respectively).</p><p /><p>The threshold used is 60 per cent of median equivalised household income Before Housing Costs (BHC). Since household incomes are subject to measurement error, and the threshold is subject to sampling and measurement error, the analysis only includes ‘clear’ transitions. For an entry/exit to count, household incomes must cross the 60 per cent of median income threshold and be at least 10 per cent higher / lower than the threshold in the following year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 04/06/2019 16:27:01 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	217 label Biography information for Baroness Primarolo

1078284

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to tackle child poverty across the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL14056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the answer I gave on Wednesday 27 February HL13942</p><p>There is clear evidence that work offers the best opportunity for families to move out of poverty and towards financial independence. Children in workless households are around 5 times more likely to be in poverty after housing costs than those where all adults work. 62% of children living in a workless couple family are in relative poverty (before housing costs) compared with only 3% where both adults work full-time.</p><p>This is why we are continuing to undertake the most ambitious reform to the welfare system in decades – so that it supports people to find and to stay in work. Nationally, there are now over 3.5 million more people in work. Universal Credit is at the heart of these reforms. It is designed to promote full-time work and employment for partners where possible, through smoother incentives to increase hours.</p><p>Working parents on UC can have up to 85% of their childcare costs reimbursed – worth up to £1,108 per month for someone with two or more children. We have also introduced additional flexibility on support for up front childcare costs, increased work allowances, and doubled free childcare available to working parents of 3 and 4 year olds to 30 hours per week.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 05/03/2019 16:03:19 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

829980

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of recent changes in welfare provision on the number of children living in poverty in Oldham West and Royton constituency.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	124710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of children in relative low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p>Latest 3-year estimates for the North West of the proportion and number of children in low income are available in Table 4.16ts and Table 4.17ts in the file “4_children_timeseries_risk” from this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip</a></p><p>Impact Assessments of policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Act of 2016 were published in 2015. Evidence shows work is the best route out of poverty; nearly three-quarters of children from workless families moved out of poverty when their parents entered into full-time work. Children in workless households are five time more likely to be in poverty than those in households where all adults were working. Welfare reforms are designed to incentivise parents to make the choice to move into and progress in work.</p><p>This Government is committed to action that tackles the root causes of poverty and disadvantage with policies that incentivise employment as the best route out of poverty. In <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, we set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s long-term outcomes. This includes nine national indicators to track progress in tackling the disadvantages that affect families and children. Four of these measures are set out in primary legislation which places a duty on the Government report annually to Parliament on the parental worklessness and educational attainment indicators. Data on the non-statutory indicators will also be published each year.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/01/2018 16:46:40 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

802410

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications for future advances in social mobility of the finding by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that almost 37 per cent of children will fall below the relative poverty line by 2021.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL3943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Employment is key to helping people out of poverty and to make a real and lasting change to the lives of disadvantaged families and children. Our welfare and tax reforms are designed to incentivise employment and to support people to progress in work. Employment is now at near-record levels and the number of children living in a family where no one is working is 608,000 lower than it was in 2010. Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not forecast estimates of low income, but the next HBAI publication for 2016/17 data has been <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201617" target="_blank">pre-announced</a> and will be published by the end of March 2018. The government is committed to continue to publish this series on an annual basis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 20/12/2017 13:55:33 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

783281

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the rate of child poverty has been in each year from 2010 to 2017; and what the rate of child poverty is forecast to be in each year from 2018 to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	111276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong>Estimates of the child poverty rate since 2010 are published annually in Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data tables.</p><p> </p><p>These are publicly available in the link shown (see file “4_children_trends.ods” and tabs 4.1tr and 4.2tr).</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip</a></p><p> </p><p>We do not forecast rates of low income. Statistics on the proportion and number of children living in households in low income in 2016/17 have been <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201617" target="_blank">pre-announced</a> and will be published in the Households Below Average Income release by the end of March 2018. The government is committed to continue publishing this series on an annual basis.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2017 16:07:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

781456

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 18 April 2017 to Question 69473, on children: poverty, what the factors of disadvantage are that will be taken into consideration by local government.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	110630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>As part of ‘Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families’ publication on 4 April, we made public our latest analysis and the evidence base about multiple disadvantage. This will enable local authorities, local partners and others to understand the complex factors of disadvantage in their local area and take practical action to improve children’s outcomes. As part of this evidence-sharing approach we made available local level data on the factors of disadvantage via a local government data tool (LG Inform) which can be found in the following link.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/view/dwp/improving-lives-helping-workless-families-local-data-report-3?mod-area=E09000033&amp;mod-group=AllBoroughInRegion_London&amp;mod-type=namedComparisonGroup." target="_blank">http://lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/view/dwp/improving-lives-helping-workless-families-local-data-report-3?mod-area=E09000033&amp;mod-group=AllBoroughInRegion_London&amp;mod-type=namedComparisonGroup.</a></p><p> </p><p>The parental disadvantage factors included in the local government data tool are parental worklessness, parental conflict, poor parental mental health, drug and alcohol dependency, problem debt and homelessness. The outcome indicator areas covered are early years, educational attainment and youth employment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/11/2017 12:57:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

781461

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans the Government has to reduce the number of children living in poverty over the 2017 Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	110654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>Work is key to helping people out of poverty; employment is now at a record high and the number of children living in workless families is down by 608,000 compared with 2010. The Government is committed to action that will make a meaningful difference to the lives of the most disadvantaged children and families. Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2017 12:18:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

759273

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the merits of replicating the Welsh Government's child poverty strategy.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this government. To do this requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage. This is why the income-related targets and the requirement to publish a child poverty strategy set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been repealed. In their place, we have introduced statutory measures to drive action on parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment – the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference to disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p><em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It introduced seven non-statutory indicators and underlying measures to track progress in other areas, such as parental conflict, problem debt and homelessness, that are important in tackling the disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes.</p><p><br>The Government has a statutory duty to report annually to Parliament on parental worklessness and children’s education attainment. The latest data on the non-statutory indicators will also be published each year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9790 9791 9792 9793 question first answered 18/09/2017 13:17:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

759274

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to introduce annual reporting against targets for the Government's child poverty strategy.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	9790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this government. To do this requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage. This is why the income-related targets and the requirement to publish a child poverty strategy set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been repealed. In their place, we have introduced statutory measures to drive action on parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment – the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference to disadvantaged children.</p><p> </p><p><em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It introduced seven non-statutory indicators and underlying measures to track progress in other areas, such as parental conflict, problem debt and homelessness, that are important in tackling the disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes.</p><p><br>The Government has a statutory duty to report annually to Parliament on parental worklessness and children’s education attainment. The latest data on the non-statutory indicators will also be published each year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9789 9791 9792 9793 question first answered 18/09/2017 13:17:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake