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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2019-04-03more like thismore than 2019-04-03
answering body
Department for Work and Pensions more like this
answering dept id 29 more like this
answering dept short name Work and Pensions more like this
answering dept sort name Work and Pensions more like this
hansard heading Poverty: Children more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the benefit freeze on child poverty rates. more like this
tabling member constituency East Ham more like this
tabling member printed
Stephen Timms more like this
uin 240462 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2019-04-08more like thismore than 2019-04-08
answer text <p>An Impact Assessment of the benefit freeze was published in 2015. The Welfare Reforms such as the benefit freeze were designed to incentivise parents to choose to move into and progress in work. Evidence shows that work is the best route out of poverty. Children in workless households are five time more likely to be in poverty than those in households where all adults were working.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Colchester more like this
answering member printed Will Quince more like this
question first answered
less than 2019-04-08T10:56:13.853Zmore like thismore than 2019-04-08T10:56:13.853Z
answering member
4423
label Biography information for Will Quince remove filter
tabling member
163
label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms more like this