Child Poverty Bill

I cannot confirm that figure off the top of my head. I can certainly get the latest data that we have, but I know that it is not an insignificant sum over a range of benefits; council tax benefit is one, while pension credit is a smaller issue but still a significant one. Housing benefit is also affected. Sometimes the underclaiming arises because people do not necessarily take the point that some of these are in-work benefits as well as out-of-work benefits—that impacts on housing benefit and council tax benefit in particular—but the drive to have better take-up of those benefits is crucial to tackling poverty and income inequality. That is another feature of this debate: we are talking about poverty and relative incomes, but this touches upon income equality as well.