Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Department for Work and Pensions' document entitled Households Below Average Income: For Financial Years Ending 1995 to 2024, published on 25 June 2026, what targeted funding and resources are being allocated to local authorities in urban areas to help tackle child poverty, including in Leicester East constituency.

Local authorities play a critical role in tackling child poverty by delivering services that interact with vulnerable children at multiple points in their lives. The Spending Review 2025 provided over £5 billion of new grant funding for local services over the three years from 2026/27, including £3.4 billion of new funding which will be delivered through the first multi-year Local Government Finance Settlement in over a decade. Through the Fair Funding Review 2.0, we have set out proposals to ensure that funding is directed to the places and communities that need it the most, including those with higher levels of child poverty.

To further support local authorities in tackling child poverty, we have announced initiatives such as the £5 billion Pride in Place programme which will deliver support to 284 of the most in-need places in Great Britain, including Thurnby Lodge in the Leicester East constituency. We have also delivered the £842 million Crisis and Resilience Fund in England, giving councils much needed certainty to protect households from falling into crisis, and made a £500 million investment in the UK-wide Better Futures Fund, breaking down barriers to opportunity for up to 200,000 vulnerable children and young people.