Thank you for contacting me about child poverty.
I firmly believe that children should grow up in an environment with no limits to their potential and that we must continue efforts to reduce poverty, including child poverty.
First, thank you for highlighting the statistics for our local area. I would emphasise that my colleagues at the Department for Work and Pensions have been unable to assess the robustness of Loughborough University’s modelling, as their methodological choices have not been shared. National Statistics on the number and percentage of children in low income households are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication...
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