Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answers by Lord Henley on 24 January (HL Deb, cols 547–9), what responsibilities the Social Mobility Commission retains for the issue of child poverty since that issue was removed from its title and explicit remit by the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.

I have written to the Honourable Lady to clarify the response I gave on 24 January; a copy has been placed in the library.