{"value":{"id":79697,"askingMemberId":4308,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2014-07-28T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2014-08-11T00:00:00","uin":"HL1589","questionText":"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the under-occupancy charge on child poverty.","answeringBodyId":29,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Work and Pensions","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":3893,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","answerText":"<p> </p><p> </p><p>This cost of providing this information is disproportionate.</p><p> </p><p>This Government has made good progress in tackling the root cause of child poverty and has recently published its 2014-17 child poverty strategy which outlines the actions being taken.</p><p> </p><p>The latest figures from 2012/13 show that the number of children in relative income poverty has fallen by 300,000 since 2009/10 representing the lowest level since the mid – 1980s.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/79697","method":"GET"}]}