Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the New Policy Institute report, What happened to poverty under the Coalition, published on 29 April 2015.

DWP has noted the recent publication of the New Policy Institute predictions report on their modelling of poverty under the Coalition.

Since 2010, this Government and the previous Coalition Government have undertaken the most substantial welfare reforms in a generation, with employment at the highest on record, this government is restoring fairness, simplifying the benefit system, and helping people into lasting employment.

It is known that accurately predicting poverty levels is difficult, as it is influenced by complex interactions between the labour market, welfare state and the wider economy.