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756102

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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, if the Government will make an assessment of the findings of the London School of Economics Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion report, Does Money Affect Children's Outcome: An Update, published in July 2017.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	6878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Making a meaningful difference to the lives of disadvantaged children requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. Work is key to alleviating poverty; children in workless households are five times more likely to be in poverty than those in households where all adults were working. And new analysis carried out by the Department for Work and Pensions shows that children living in workless families are significantly more disadvantaged, and achieve poorer outcomes than other children including those in lower-income working families. This Government’s policies to support and encourage work mean that there are 608,000 fewer children in workless households compared with 2010. <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.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 14:20:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

756284

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2017 to Question 97, if he will make it his Department's policy to work with relevant bodies to increase the survey sample sizes to support the production of robust estimates of the number of children in relative low income at constituency and local authority level.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	7637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The current FRS sample of 20,000 households a year already makes it one of the largest social surveys in the UK. It is designed to be representative at a country / region level (13 areas), and even at this geography results are often presented as a three-year average. Expanding this to be representative at local authority level would require a huge increase in the sample, which even if practicable, would involve significant additional spending in the order of millions of pounds.</p><p> </p><p>The government is trying to help local authorities understand and monitor disadvantage within their area. Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, sets out statutory and non-statutory indicators to provide a framework for a continued focus on improving outcomes for disadvantaged families and children, now and over time. As part of this, we have made available the latest analysis and an evidence base to enable local authorities, local partners and others to understand, and act on, the complex factors of disadvantage in their local area. This includes local-level data on the factors of disadvantage that is available through a local government data tool (LG Inform).</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 14:16:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

753389

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
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 Cardiff Central constituency in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	5684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 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 05/09/2017 10:39:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

753605

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
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 Torfaen in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	5801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 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 05/09/2017 10:50:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

714776

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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 is their estimate of the impact of the recent increase in inflation on the number of children in poverty; and what plans they have for protecting low income families against the rising cost of basic essentials.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Portsmouth
uin	HL6396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>Impacts of the latest increase in inflation on families with children have not been estimated.</p><p> </p><p>However the Department’s latest Households Below Average Income statistics to 2016 published on 16th March 2017 does show how the number of children in low income households has changed with reference to inflation (the measure is called absolute low income). Since 2010, there has been a decrease of 200,000 children before housing costs (BHC) in absolute low income. After housing costs (AHC) had been taken into account, there were 100,000 fewer children in absolute low income since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of proportions, there have also been reductions in the rates of absolute low income on both bases - BHC down by 2 percentage points, and AHC down by 1 percentage point since 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 06/04/2017 15:10:48 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4314 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Portsmouth

641879

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
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 findings of the Early Intervention Foundation's Report <i>The Cost of Late Intervention: EIF analysis 2016</i>; and what plans they have to prioritise preventative interventions in seeking to dismantle the root causes of poverty.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL3447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>This Government is committed to action that tackles the root causes of poverty and disadvantage, not just the symptoms. As part of our approach, we fully recognise that the right intervention, at the right time, can make a real difference to the lives of children and their families. This is why, for example, we are developing a new approach to relationship support. This is based on the latest evidence from the Early Intervention Foundation that children exposed to frequent, intense and poorly resolved conflict between their parents are at risk of poorer long term outcomes. Our approach targets couples and parents during key life transitions; and by doubling the available funding since April 2016 for the remainder of this Parliament we can ensure that more families benefit from this new approach.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/12/2016 17:47:17 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

432079

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
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 how many of those responding to the 2012 consultation <i>Measuring Child Poverty</i> supported the exclusion of any income measure; and whether they will name those organisations that supported the exclusion.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL3852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the consultation on new measures of child poverty can be found in Annex E of the attached document. The analysis of the results in 2013 recorded that two respondents to the consultation said income should not be included in a measure of child poverty.</p><br /><p>We cannot give the names of the respondents due to Data Protection Act requirements. However, one was from an academic organisation and the other was from a frontline service.</p><br /><p>The Government wants to focus future effort on tackling the root causes of child poverty. That is why the life chances provisions in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill will introduce new measures of worklessness and educational attainment, and why we have committed ourselves to introducing a set of non-statutory indicators including ones on family breakdown, problem debt and addiction. These measures will focus action on the areas which the evidence indicates will make a sustainable difference to children’s lives - now and in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2015 17:55:31 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name Consultation on Child Poverty Strategy.pdf title Consultaion on Child Poverty Strategy
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

427515

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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 is their estimate of the effect on the number of children in poverty of the proposals in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill to (1) freeze certain benefits and tax credit amounts for four years; (2) reduce the level of the benefit cap; and (3) change child tax credits and the child element of universal credit.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL3535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. These are available on the Parliament website.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 23/11/2015 16:50:53 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

391323

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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 report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies <i>Living Standards, Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2015;</i> and how they plan to respond to the findings that nearly 63 per cent of British children living in poverty are in working families.
tabling member printed	Lord Tyler
uin	HL1667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The recent IFS report is positive about the Government’s new approach to tackling the root causes of poverty: they said that “focusing on a broad range of inputs into life chances and causes of poverty is sensible.” They also add that “family worklessness certainly is a sensible thing to track if one wants to reduce the prevalence of low living standards.”</p><p> </p><p>This Government knows that work remains the best route out of poverty. Research shows that around three-quarters of poor children in families that move into full employment exit poverty. We are committed to supporting parents to move into work, increase their earnings, and keep more of what they earn. Universal Credit, our investment in childcare and the introduction of the National Living Wage will all play an important part.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also recognises that improving skills and progression is the key to making work pay. That is why under this Government we intend to create three million more apprenticeships over the next five years, and to help people move on to better jobs by improving qualifications and providing additional support through Jobcentre Plus.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 30/07/2015 13:27:22 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	225 label Biography information for Lord Tyler

387932

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the relationship between poverty in childhood and (a) ill-health and (b) use of the NHS in adulthood.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	900793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>We want all children to have the healthiest start possible in life, and particularly the poorest children. We have strengthened support for mothers, babies and children by increasing the number of Health Visitors and more than doubling the number of places on the Family Nurse Partnership programme. Health is a new theme of the new Troubled Families Programme, in order to improve the physical and mental health of the adults and children in these families.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 07/07/2015 16:27:07 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford