Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the contribution of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury of 29 January 2019, Official Report, Column 637, to which (a) initial and (b) final financial year she referred to in relation to official estimates of the change in the number of children in absolute child poverty.

From 2009/10 to 2016/17, the number of children in absolute poverty fell from 2.5 million to 2.2 million.