Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and which wards based in rural districts are in the worst 10 per cent of wards for child poverty according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation.

The Department does not publish ward level data for the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) or the supplementary Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI).