Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help end child poverty.

This Government is committed to action that improves long-term outcomes for children and families by focusing on tackling the root causes of poverty and disadvantage. This is why we introduced statutory measures to drive action on parental worklessness and children’s educational attainment – the areas that can make the biggest difference.

Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published in April 2017 set out the framework for a continued focus on improving outcomes for disadvantaged families and their children both now and in the future. This included an additional seven non-statutory national indicators to track progress over time.

We are also undertaking the most ambitious reform to the welfare system in decades - so that it supports people to find and to stay in work. We believe that work offers families the best opportunity to get out of poverty and become self-reliant. Children living in households where all adults work are five times less likely to be in poverty than those in workless households.