Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Early Intervention Foundation review, What works to enhance interparental relationships and improve children's outcomes, commissioned by his Department and published on 22 March 2016, what assessment the Government has made of the (a) link between the quality of a parental relationship on a child's life chances and (b) effectiveness of targeted relationship support.

The Department has not made a formal assessment of the link between the quality of parental relationships on a child's life chances and the effectiveness of targeted relationship support. The report presented by the Early Intervention Foundation shows that children exposed to frequent, intense and poorly resolved conflict between their parents are at risk of poorer long term outcomes. This evidence is being used to inform our approach to developing policy for future relationship support provision.