Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of parental employment on levels of child poverty.

Children living in households where no adults work are around 4 times more likely to be in poverty than those in households where all adults are in work. The Government has taken steps to support people into work and to improve incomes for working families.

We have increased the National Living Wage, we are strengthening employment rights to deliver more secure and flexible work and expanding access to affordable childcare so parents can take up and progress in employment. Alongside this, we are improving Universal Credit to ensure families keep more of what they earn, including reducing deductions and delivering the first sustained, above inflation rise in the basic rate of Universal Credit since it was introduced.