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To ask the Secretary of State for Education in what form responses to the Government's consultation on Measuring Child Poverty will be published.
[144123]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education in what form responses to the Government's consultation on Measuring Child Poverty will be published.
[144123]
The consultation on better measures of child poverty closed on 15 February and a large volume of responses was received.
All responses will be read and analysed to ensure that all important points are captured and used to help Ministers decide on the next steps. The Government has not decided in what form its response will be published, but any response will be available on the Department's website.
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Iain Duncan Smith) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
A year ago, we published Social Justice: Transforming Lives, a landmark document setting out a new vision for supporting the most disadvantaged families and individuals across the UK. The...
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Iain Duncan Smith) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
A year ago, we published Social Justice: Transforming Lives, a landmark document setting out a new vision for supporting the most disadvantaged families and individuals across the UK. The...
A year ago, we published “Social Justice: transforming lives”, a landmark document setting out a new vision for supporting the most disadvantaged families and individuals across the UK. The social justice strategy outlined how family breakdown, low educational attainment, worklessness, problem debt, and addiction combine to cause the entrenched poverty...
A year ago, we published “Social Justice: transforming lives”, a landmark document setting out a new vision for supporting the most disadvantaged families and individuals across the UK. The social justice strategy outlined how family breakdown, low educational attainment, worklessness, problem debt, and addiction combine to cause the entrenched poverty...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessmenthe has made of the distribution by income decile of additional gains to families arising from the additional childcare support announced as part of Budget 2013.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessmenthe has made of the distribution by income decile of additional gains to families arising from the additional childcare support announced as part of Budget 2013.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on measured child poverty rates of the additional childcare support announced in the 2013 Budget.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on measured child poverty rates of the additional childcare support announced in the 2013 Budget.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of disabled children living in poverty in Birmingham.
[153034]
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of disabled children living in poverty in Birmingham.
[153034]
It is not possible to provide figures for Birmingham due to small sample sizes. In 2010-11 across the UK there were 100,000 disabled children living in families with below 60% of relative median income, before housing costs. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100,000. Low income figures are published annually in the Households below Average Income publication available here:
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/index.php?page==hbai
The Government launched a consultation on measuring child poverty on 15 November 2012. The consultation sought views on better measurement of child poverty in the UK. The Government believes that, in addition to income, it is important to take other elements into account, such as worklessness, educational failure and poor health. The consultation closed on 15 February 2013. The responses to the consultation are currently being analysed, and the Government's response will be published in the summer.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 14 March (WA 77), whether they will publish responses to the consultation Measuring Child Poverty where respondents have not requested that their submissions be kept private.[HL6554]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 14 March (WA 77), whether they will publish responses to the consultation Measuring Child Poverty where respondents have not requested that their submissions be kept private.[HL6554]
As I stated in my previous reply, this was an open consultation and we are considering each response seriously. We anticipate we will publish a summary of the responses to the consultation alongside the Government’s response. A
decision on whether or not to go beyond standard practice and publish all responses will be taken in due course.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make an assessment of the relationship between court-imposed fines and (a) reliance on payday loans, (b) homelessness and (c) child poverty.
[150080]
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make an assessment of the relationship between court-imposed fines and (a) reliance on payday loans, (b) homelessness and (c) child poverty.
[150080]
I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.
Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does not have any way of identifying offenders who fall into the groups mentioned.
HMCTS takes the issue of fine enforcement very seriously and as part of the future strategy, HMCTS will be considering numerous ways in which performance can be improved, which could include offender profiling.
The information HMCTS holds on offenders is provided by the prosecuting authorities, the offenders themselves and by using the tracing tools HMCTS has at its disposal such as the Experian credit reference agency and the Department for Work and Pensions customer information system. The means form, which defendants are asked to complete, requests details of income and outgoings, including loan amounts they are repaying and how many dependant children they have, but as many defendants do not provide financial means information to the court, HMCTS does not know what other financial commitments they have.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate how many pensioners were living on an income of below 40 per cent of median household earnings in each year since 2010.
[151488]
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate how many pensioners were living on an income of below 40 per cent of median household earnings in each year since 2010.
[151488]
We estimate that out of 11.7 million pensioners 0.5 million were living on an income of below 40% contemporary household income, after housing costs, in 2010-11.
This estimate is based on Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data sourced from the 2010-11 Family Resources Survey (FRS). This is the most recent data source available.
The estimate uses disposable household income, adjusted using modified OECD equivalisation factors for household size and composition, to identify those with less than 40% median contemporary household income. Figures have been presented on an After Housing Cost basis.
All estimates are based on survey data and are therefore subject to a degree of uncertainty. Numbers of pensioners have been rounded to the nearest 100,000.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent discussions he has had with child poverty charities on the effects of Budget 2013 on the number of children in poverty.
[150317]
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent discussions he has had with child poverty charities on the effects of Budget 2013 on the number of children in poverty.
[150317]
Treasury Ministers engage with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.
The Treasury publishes a list of ministerial meetings with external organisations. This is available online at:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/minister_hospitality.htm
Budget 2013 took action to support families and make the tax and welfare system fairer: including further increasing the income tax personal allowance to take 2.7 million people on low incomes out of tax altogether and cancelling the increase in fuel duty planned for September 2013.
The Government believes looking at income in isolation is not a helpful measure to track progress towards its target of eradicating child poverty.
This is why we consulted on better measures of child poverty in November 2012. The consultation closed in February, we are currently considering more than 250 responses to the consultation and will publish our response in the summer.
An estimated 3.6 million children in the UK live in poverty according to the Government’s own measure, but recent figures from the Children’s Society have uncovered that 1.2 million of those children who are of school age do not receive free school meals. Notwithstanding the nutritional benefits that children receive...
An estimated 3.6 million children in the UK live in poverty according to the Government’s own measure, but recent figures from the Children’s Society have uncovered that 1.2 million of those children who are of school age do not receive free school meals. Notwithstanding the nutritional benefits that children receive...
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. Does he agree that, although the pupil premium is a great first step, we should be looking for a national funding formula that is fair for every child in this country?
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. Does he agree that, although the pupil premium is a great first step, we should be looking for a national funding formula that is fair for every child in this country?
I strongly agree, and I welcome the suggestion from Ministers that they are working towards that objective. I also appreciate that, particularly in the current financial climate, it cannot be achieved overnight, but it would be a great pity if, during the five years in which the Conservatives and Liberal...
I strongly agree, and I welcome the suggestion from Ministers that they are working towards that objective. I also appreciate that, particularly in the current financial climate, it cannot be achieved overnight, but it would be a great pity if, during the five years in which the Conservatives and Liberal...
I am hugely grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, and I congratulate him on securing this debate. Does he agree that a huge injustice is being done to students who are eligible for free school meals? If they go to school, they get free school meals, but if...
I am hugely grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, and I congratulate him on securing this debate. Does he agree that a huge injustice is being done to students who are eligible for free school meals? If they go to school, they get free school meals, but if...
My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. In a minute or two I will address the reforms that I think are necessary. Happily, the coming of universal credit gives the Government an opportunity to reform the system. Of course, universal credit has great potential for considering household income holistically, and...
My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. In a minute or two I will address the reforms that I think are necessary. Happily, the coming of universal credit gives the Government an opportunity to reform the system. Of course, universal credit has great potential for considering household income holistically, and...
It is a pleasure, Mr Crausby, to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Sir Nick Harvey) on securing this debate. I discussed the matter with the Minister for Schools yesterday, and my hon. Friend will know that the two of us have...
It is a pleasure, Mr Crausby, to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Sir Nick Harvey) on securing this debate. I discussed the matter with the Minister for Schools yesterday, and my hon. Friend will know that the two of us have...
The Minister’s point is that there are many different measures that could be used, and that the relative poverty figure is a percentage of the whole
and thus prone to fluctuation from time to time. Nevertheless, can he not see the point made by the Children’s Society that, if the...
The Minister’s point is that there are many different measures that could be used, and that the relative poverty figure is a percentage of the whole
and thus prone to fluctuation from time to time. Nevertheless, can he not see the point made by the Children’s Society that, if the...
The measure my hon. Friend refers to is one measure of poverty; it is not the measure of poverty. Crucially, however, the link between eligibility for free school meals and poverty is changing with the universal credit, as he said, and I shall come on to that in a second.
My...
The measure my hon. Friend refers to is one measure of poverty; it is not the measure of poverty. Crucially, however, the link between eligibility for free school meals and poverty is changing with the universal credit, as he said, and I shall come on to that in a second.
My...
Does my hon. Friend agree that that also applies to sixth-form students in colleges? Three times as many students at colleges are eligible for free school meals as students in maintained sixth forms. If we are serious about levelling the playing field, should we not concentrate our resources on those...
Does my hon. Friend agree that that also applies to sixth-form students in colleges? Three times as many students at colleges are eligible for free school meals as students in maintained sixth forms. If we are serious about levelling the playing field, should we not concentrate our resources on those...
I am terribly sorry. I was referring not to Front-Bench spokespeople but to any Opposition Members. I take your point, however, Mr Crausby.
On colleges, I understand the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow, but we need to be careful about what we wish for, because schools...
I am terribly sorry. I was referring not to Front-Bench spokespeople but to any Opposition Members. I take your point, however, Mr Crausby.
On colleges, I understand the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow, but we need to be careful about what we wish for, because schools...