Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to produce child poverty statistics at (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency level.

Through the Welfare Reform and Work Act we have introduced new life chances measures to track children in workless households and children’s educational attainment. These – and other measures to be brought forward in our forthcoming Life Chances Strategy – will help drive action on those areas that make the most difference to children’s lives.

We will continue to publish data on low income through the annual Households Below Average Income statistics. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level. This is because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.