Children: Poverty
(asked on 21st July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he consulted the Children's Commissioner for England on the redefinition of measures of child poverty.
This question was answered on 7th September 2015
On November 2012, the Coalition Government published Measuring Child Poverty: A consultation on better measures of child poverty. The public consultation launched on 15 November 2012 and closed on 15 February 2013. The Children’s Commissioner for England responded to the consultation.
Additionally, the Secretary of State met with the Children’s Commissioner for England in 2012/13 to discuss child poverty.