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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1111082", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for International Development"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1111082/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>In July, the UK will present a Voluntary National Review (VNR) to the United Nations, setting out the UK\u2019s contribution to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at home and abroad. The report will include how the Government is supporting delivery of Goal 10 (reduce inequality within and among countries).<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The UK\u2019s commitment to Leave No-one Behind means ensuring the inclusion of the poorest and most marginalised people. Furthermore, DFID\u2019s Data Disaggregation Action Plan and Inclusive Data Charter Action Plan set out our goal to increase the level of disaggregated data we collect, report and use to ensure a deeper understanding of who is at risk of being left behind, where they are, and why.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4107", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4628", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Danielle Rowley"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1111085", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Women and Equalities"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1111085/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Goal 10 is to reduce inequality within and between countries, and so responsibility for delivery is shared across Government. For example, the Office for Disability Issues in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) leads on disability policy, the Race Disparity Unit in the Cabinet Office is key to our approach on race equality, DWP and HM Treasury are responsible for addressing income inequality within the UK, and the Department for International Development leads on tackling inequality between countries.<\/p><p>To aid transparency, all Departments are expected to set out how their activity aligns to the Goals in their Single Departmental Plans. The Government Equalities Office is coordinating reporting for Goal 10 across Government for the Voluntary National Review this year.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4399", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Victoria Atkins"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Victoria Atkins"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-05-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Women and Equalities"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-04-10", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which Department is responsible for monitoring and implementing policies relating to the targets under Sustainable Development Goal 10 on economic inequality.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4628", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Danielle Rowley"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105833", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105833/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>This government is committed to delivering a sustainable long-term solution to poverty, by building a strong economy and ensuring that the benefit system works with the tax system and the labour market, to support employment and higher pay.<\/p><p>The Government does not publish data on those living more than 50% below the poverty line as comparisons of household income and expenditure suggest that those households reporting the very lowest incomes may not have the lowest living standards, meaning such a measure is likely to be unreliable.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions, through its Jobcentre Plus network and local delivery partners, provides support for vulnerable customers or those with complex needs to address barriers so that they can move forward with their lives.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>A report on progress on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda will be presented to the UN\u2019s High Level Political Forum in July as part of the UK\u2019s Voluntary National Review. The Department for Work and Pensions is leading work across Government to assess progress against the first of these goals: \u2018End poverty in all its forms everywhere\u2019.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3349", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Buscombe"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-03-28", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their commitment to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, what steps they are taking to ensure that people living more than 50 per cent below the poverty line in the UK are not left behind.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4546", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Stroud"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Baroness Stroud"}
      ], "uin" : "HL14919"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1087536", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1087536/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Prime Minister has committed the UK to undertaking a Voluntary National Review (VNR) on progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda. This will be presented to the UN\u2019s High Level Political Forum in July this year. The Department for Work and Pensions is leading work across Government to assess progress against sustainable development goal 1 and, as part of this, has been engaging with a broad range of external stakeholders.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3349", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Buscombe"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Buscombe"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-03-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Poverty"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department for Work and Pensions has made in achieving sustainable development goal 1, End poverty in all its forms everywhere, for which it is the lead department; and what steps that department has taken to publicise its work on that goal.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4234", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Baroness Lister of Burtersett"}
      ], "uin" : "HL14458"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1064609", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1064609/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The department has not carried out any assessment of the Oxfam Cymru livelihoods and poverty awareness training project. Oxfam Cymru commissioned the University of Salford to carry out an independent evaluation the result of which can be found on their website.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Department is exploring how this approach could be included as part of our claimant offer and the associated training requirements for our staff.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3349", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Buscombe"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Buscombe"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-02-27", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-02-27T12:01:27.207Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-02-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Poverty"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the pilot Department for Work and Pensions and Oxfam Cymru livelihoods and poverty awareness training project carried out in 2016\u201317; and whether there are any plans to introduce such training elsewhere.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4234", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Baroness Lister of Burtersett"}
      ], "uin" : "HL13928"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1064190", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Treasury"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1064190/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The government is tackling the root causes of poverty by getting people into work and giving children the best possible education. A record number of children are now in working households, with 630,000 fewer children in workless households than in 2010.<\/p><p>Budget 2018 announced that Universal Credit claimants will continue to receive Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Income Support for the first fortnight of a Universal Credit claim. This builds on previous announcements to support people moving onto Universal Credit.<\/p><p>The government has committed to establish the UK Shared Prosperity Fund after we have left the European Union and EU Structural Funds. The UKSPF will tackle inequalities between communities by raising productivity, especially in those parts of our country whose economies are furthest behind. We intend to consult widely on the fund shortly; details of the operation and priorities of the Fund will be announced following the Spending Review.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1091", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Bates"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Bates"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-03-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Treasury"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-02-19", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the letter concerning the impact of Brexit on people and places in poverty from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Shelter, Trussell Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Action for Children, National Children\u2019s Bureau, Poverty Alliance, Turn2us, Barnardo's, and ATD Fourth World dated 15 February; and what plans they have to (1) lift the freeze on working-age benefits and tax credits, (2) end the five-week wait for the first payment within Universal Credit, and (3) bring forward funding from the Shared Prosperity Fund to create an emergency stimulus package before 2020.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4564", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Bird"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Bird"}
      ], "uin" : "HL13837"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1061330", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1061330/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Trends in rates of low-income nationally and regionally are published in the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. The latest publication is available <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201617\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>HBAI data cannot be used to produce breakdowns at local authority level as it is based on data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS), an annual survey of approximately 20,000 households across the UK. FRS sample size and coverage issues means that results broken down below the level of UK region are unlikely to be reliable. For alternative sub-regional sources, please see pages 58-59 of the HBAI Quality and Methodology report <a href=\"http://doc.ukdataservice.ac.uk/doc/7196/mrdoc/pdf/hbai_16_17_quality_and_methodology.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4105", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Justin Tomlinson"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North Swindon"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Justin Tomlinson"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-02-19", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-02-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Poverty"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms the Government uses for recording trends in poverty at the (a) national, (b) regional and (c) local authority level.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/534", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Ruane"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Vale of Clwyd"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Chris Ruane"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1042096", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1042096/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>(1) &amp; (2) We disagree with the reports emphasis and analysis being solely based on a relative poverty measure. There are 300,000 fewer children (both before and after housing costs) living in absolute poverty since 2010.<\/p><p>(3) &amp; (4) The risk of being in absolute poverty (before housing costs), if you are in work, has remained broadly stable over time. Also, there is an 8 per cent chance of working-age adults being in absolute poverty (before housing costs), which is the lowest since 2005. For children in couple families, there is only a 2 per cent chance of being in absolute poverty (before housing costs) if both parents work full-time. Also, the majority of those in-work poverty are those with part-time work only, single earner couples, or those in full-time self-employment. Finally, Universal Credit helps by incentivising the entry into work, offering smooth incentives to increase hours, and setting a general expectation that lone parents and partners should work (if not caring for young children or a disabled person) and offers generous childcare subsidies.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3349", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Buscombe"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Buscombe"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-01-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-01-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 19 December (HL12320), what assessment have they made of the main conclusions of the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK Poverty 2018, published on 4 December 2018, that (1) child poverty has been rising since 2011\u201312, (2) 4.1 million children are living in poverty, a rise of 500,000 in the last five years, (3) four million workers are living in poverty, a rise of more than half a million over five years, and (4) that in-work poverty has been rising faster than employment.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4234", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett"}
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