Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting city mayors in establishing localised child poverty targets.

Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, forms part of the Government’s ambitious agenda for social reform and sets out a framework for continued action to drive improved outcomes for disadvantaged families and children. As part of this, we are making available the latest analysis and an evidence base to enable local authorities, local partners and others to understand, and act on, the complex factors of disadvantage in their local area. This will include local-level data on the factors of disadvantage that will be available through a local government data tool.