PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Disadvantaged (18 March 2015)

There have been a number of recent reports on inequality and social mobility in the UK, including the Office for National Statistics’ report on Poverty and Employment Transitions on March 10^th; and Oxford University’s report on disadvantaged students on March 17^th.

These and other reports underline the importance of the Government’s efforts to improve social mobility, and why we have prioritised the £2.5 billion pupil premium, early years education for the disadvantaged and created the Social Mobility & Child Poverty Commission to hold the Government to account.