Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 17 July 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to increase levels of social mobility.
I refer you to my previous answer to the member for Witham in the House on 21 May, volume 641, column 552. https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-05-21/debates/3F200720-92F6-4F4B-A1E1-AF6454B09F5B/SocialMobility
Through our reforms to the welfare system, we have increased the number of people in employment to a record 32.39m, including increases across historically under-represented groups, and in doing so we have reduced the number of children living in workless households by around 600,000.
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