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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

391532

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	Social Security Benefits: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lone parent families in Scotland have been affected by the benefit cap to date; and how many such families have (a) one child, (b) two and (c) three children under five.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	7931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Data on the number of households capped since April 2013 by region and family type can be found in Stat-Xplore, the Department’s online interactive tabulation tool, which can be accessed here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=Benefit_Cap_Cumulative" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=Benefit_Cap_Cumulative</a></p><p>Information on the number of children aged under 5 is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/09/2015 15:54:05 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

391533

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	Welfare State: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to conduct an annual equalities impact assessment of the effect in Scotland of the welfare changes announced in the Summer Budget 2015.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	7930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 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. This includes details of review of the policies. A link to the impact assessment on the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk</a> website is included.</p><p><a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html" target="_blank">http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 8018 question first answered 08/09/2015 16:12:30 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

391538

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	Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will adopt the definition of full employment used in the Europe 2020 strategy to define full employment in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	7953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The full employment clause in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill places a duty on the Secretary of State to lay a report before Parliament detailing progress towards full employment. The first annual report will set out the interpretation of full employment.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be appropriate to use the Europe 2020 strategy as the basis for defining full employment, as the UK employment rate for those aged 20-64, which currently stands at 76.5%, has already exceeded the target recommended in that report.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 7954 question first answered 08/09/2015 14:51:45 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

391539

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	Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures he plans to use to assess progress towards full employment.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	7954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The full employment clause in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill places a duty on the Secretary of State to lay a report before Parliament detailing progress towards full employment. The first annual report will set out the interpretation of full employment.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be appropriate to use the Europe 2020 strategy as the basis for defining full employment, as the UK employment rate for those aged 20-64, which currently stands at 76.5%, has already exceeded the target recommended in that report.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 7953 question first answered 08/09/2015 14:51:45 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

391540

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	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children experiencing material deprivation in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	7955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Estimates of the number and proportion of children in combined low income and material deprivation are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for combined low income and material deprivation have been published in HBAI since 2004/05 and are available up to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p>The latest publication is available at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-19941995-to-20132014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-19941995-to-20132014</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/09/2015 15:15:46 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed