Children: Poverty

Treasury written question – answered at on 27 March 2018.

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Photo of Baroness Primarolo Baroness Primarolo Labour

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.

Photo of Lord Bates Lord Bates The Minister of State, Department for International Development

During the passage of Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 the government published an Impact Assessment of the benefit rate freeze. This is attached.

impact assessment. (PDF Document, 263.21 KB)

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