Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Lord Freud in the Grand Committee debate on the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Targets) Regulations 2014, that the facts Lord McAvoy had quoted were "simply not true" (HL Deb, 25 November, col GC 263), how they were not true.

I wrote to the Noble Peer on this issue on 4^th December 2014. I have placed a copy of this letter in the library of the House and have also attached it to this response.