Information on expenditure under theseprogrammes is not available at a ward area level and official information onlevels of child poverty is taken from UK datasets which do not provide breakdowns at localauthority level.Across Scotland as a whole,since 1996-97 we have lifted 130,000 children out of relative low income(370,000 to 240,000 – after housing costs) and nearly two thirds of childrenfrom absolute low income (from 370,000 to 130,000 after housing costs).The official source of lowincome data for Scotland is the Households Below Average Income (HBAI)dataset available from 1994-95.