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	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

788683

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	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, with reference to the Answer of 30 March 2017 to Question 69357, on poverty, how he plans to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	112731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, provides a framework for a continued focus on improving long-term outcomes for workless families and their children. It set out national statutory and non-statutory indicators to track progress in tackling worklessness and associated disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s lives: parental conflict, parental mental health, parental drug and alcohol dependency, problem debt and homelessness.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/11/2017 12:27:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

810211

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of children were living in poverty in Gower in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Gower
	tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
	uin	120677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 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> </p><p>Latest 3-year estimates for Wales 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> </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> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/01/2018 16:23:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

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