Children: Poverty
(asked on 13th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on child poverty of the freeze in Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits and Jobseeker's Allowance between 2015 and 2017.
This question was answered on 27th March 2018
During the passage of Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 the government published an Impact Assessment of the benefit rate freeze. This is attached.