Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen families.

At the Autumn Budget the government announced that it will continue to provide funding for DWP’s relationship support work, to help keep families together and reduce parental conflict. The government will also be investing around £6 billion every year by 2020 in childcare support - more than ever before.

The government applies the Family Test to all its policies, to ensure that potential impacts on family relationships are recognised in the process of developing new policy.