Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Life Chances Strategy will include the provision of funding to support positive family relationships; whether funding under that strategy will include families with teenage children; and if he will make a statement.

This government believes that families play an essential role in improving the life chances of children of all ages. As the Prime Minister announced in his speech on 11^th January, funding for relationship support is being doubled in this Parliament with an extra £35 million to support family relationships. More details will be set out in the forthcoming Life Chances Strategy.