Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 1 February 2017 to Question 61821, on children: poverty, when he plans to publish his Department's green paper on social justice.

This Government is committed to building a country where no one and no community is left behind. This includes taking action to tackle the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future. It set out statutory and non-statutory indicators to track progress in tackling worklessness and other associated disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s outcomes: parental conflict, parental mental health, parental drug and alcohol dependency, problem debt and homelessness.