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Pre-Budget Report
The Government's aim is for every child to have the best possible start in life. Yet the rate of child poverty has increased in the past twenty years, so that one in three British children now lives in a family with income below half the national average. Between 1969 and 1997, the tax burden on families with children increased by nearly 20 per cent under successive Governments.
This paper describes how the evidence on child poverty, its cause and its consequences has informed the broad policy approach, and reforms to the tax benefit system in particular.
Supporting children through the tax and benefit system is available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website. For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page .
PDF file of Supporting children through the tax benefit system (276KB).
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