Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 30 March 2017 to Question 69357, on poverty, how he plans to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.

Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, provides a framework for a continued focus on improving long-term outcomes for workless families and their children. It set out national statutory and non-statutory indicators to track progress in tackling worklessness and associated disadvantages that can affect families’ and children’s lives: parental conflict, parental mental health, parental drug and alcohol dependency, problem debt and homelessness.