To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will estimate the monetary value in 2009-10 prices of the relative poverty threshold contained in her Department's Child Poverty Bill for (a) a single adult, (b) a childless couple and (c) a couple with one dependent child; and if she will make a statement. (295019)

[holding answer 22 October 2009]: Estimates of the monetary value in 2009-10 prices of the relative poverty threshold are not available. The thresholds for 2007-08 (the latest Households Below Average Income statistics available) are (a) £158 per week for a single adult; (b) £236 per week for a couple without children; and (c) £283 per week for a couple with one child under 14, and £314 per week for a couple with one child who is 14 or over.