The Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Target) Regulations 2014

Made: 5th December 2014

Coming into force: 31st December 2014

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 6(3) of the Child Poverty Act 2010[^f00002].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Target) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 31st December 2014.

Persistent poverty target percentage

2

For the purposes of section 6(3) of the Child Poverty Act 2010 (which allows the target to be prescribed by regulations) the target percentage is 7%.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Esther McVey — Minister of State, — Department for Work and Pensions — 5th December 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 2 of the Child Poverty Act 2010 (“the Act”) places a duty on the Secretary of State to ensure that the targets in sections 3 to 6 of the Act are met by the target year which is defined as the financial year beginning on 1 April 2020.

Section 6 of the Act relates to the persistent poverty target. This target is that less than a percentage target of children who have lived in qualifying households whose equivalised net income has been less than 60% of UK median equivalised net household income in at least three out of four consecutive survey years. Equivalised is defined in section 7 as meaning adjusted to take account of variations in household size and composition.

There is no definition of qualifying household in the Act. Section 7(1)(a) provides a power to set out in regulations the definition of a qualifying household for the purposes of the child poverty targets.

Under section 6(3) any target percentage must be prescribed by regulations made before 2015.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations sets the target percentage at 7%.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2010 c. 9

[^f00002]: See section 27(1) of the Child Poverty Act 2010 (c.9) for the definitions of prescribed and regulations.