To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, children lived in poverty as defined by the (a) absolute low income, (b) relative low income and (c) material derivation indicators announced in the Department for Work and Pensions' report Measuring Child Poverty (i) before and (ii) after housing costs in each year from 1999 to 2003, broken down by local authority area. The latest estimates of thenumbers and percentages of children in Scotland living in absolute and relativelow income poverty, before and after housing costs, can be found in tables 2eand 2g of the Scottish Executive’s report Social Justice Indicators of Progress 2003.A copy of the report is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib.number 30309).Information is not yetavailable on the material deprivation indicator measure.