Children: Poverty

Miss McIntosh
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he expects the data for levels of child poverty to be available for (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Jim Murphy
Data for 2005-06 are available in the Households Below Average Income 2005-06 publication. This is currently being revised and the new release will be available from mid-May.

The Secretary of State made a written statement to Parliament on 23 April 2007, Official Report, column 20WS, on why the statistics are being revised.

Households Below Average Income 2006-07 will be published in spring 2008.