Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 14 December 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his latest estimate is of the number of children who will be living in poverty in winter 2005–06.
The seventh annual Opportunity for all" report (Cm 6673) sets out the Government's strategy for tackling poverty and social exclusion and reports progress against a range of indicators.
Information regarding the number of children living in low-income households is published in Department for Work and Pension's publication Households Below Average Income (HBAI)", copies of which are available in the Library.
Figures for 2005–06 are not yet available and are planned for publication in 2007.
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