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date	30/01/2018
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 progress her Department has made towards meeting the 2020 poverty reduction targets set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	125655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 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targets and the requirement to publish a child poverty strategy set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 have been repealed.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 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. The Government has a statutory duty to report annually to Parliament on these indicators and will do so again in March 2018.</p><p>The links to the latest report and available data are below:</p><ul><li>Statutory report</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workless-households-and-educational-attainment-statutory-indicators" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workless-households-and-educational-attainment-statutory-indicators</a></p><ul><li>Children in workless households</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/workingandworklesshouseholds/julytoseptember2017" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/workingandworklesshouseholds/julytoseptember2017</a></p><ul><li>Children in long-term workless households</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/childrenlivinginlongtermworklesshouseholdsuk2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/childrenlivinginlongtermworklesshouseholdsuk2016</a></p><ul><li>Children’s educational attainment at key stage 4 for all pupils and disadvantaged pupils</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2016-to-2017</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/02/2018 15:12:23 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

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registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the freeze in child benefit and child tax credits on child poverty in the past seven years.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	125706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of people in absolute poverty is at record lows. Since 2010 there are 600,000 fewer people in absolute poverty, including 200,000 fewer children. Work is the most effective way out of poverty and unemployment has not been lower since 1975. From 2008 to 2015, average earnings grew by 12%, whereas most working-age benefits increased by 21%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 05/02/2018 12:03:28 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor