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1625184

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of low-income houses which are unable to afford living essentials due to a lack of funds.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	183508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>We do not collect this information; however, National Statistics on the number and percentage of people in poverty are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. This can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2021" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p> </p><p>A family is in combined low income and material deprivation if they have a material deprivation score of 25 or more and a household income below the relevant threshold of contemporary median income, Before Housing Costs. See <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/combined-working-age-absolute-low-income-and-material-deprivation-estimates-fye-2011-to-fye-2021/quality-and-methodology-information-report" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p> </p><p>The estimated number of children, working-age adults, and pensioners in combined low income and material deprivation can be found in tables 1_4d, 1_5d and 1_6c, respectively, in the summary-hbai-1994-95-2021-22-tables file.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/05/2023 16:21:57 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1607628

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their latest estimate of the numbers of (1) men, and (2) women, employees who earn less than £12,570 per annum in (a) full-time, and (b) part-time roles.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL6837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the Noble Peer’s Parliamentary Question of 27 March is attached in the answer.</p><p> </p><p>The Baroness Altmann CBE</p><p><br>House of Lords<br>London<br>SW1A 0PW</p><p>3 April 2023</p><p>Dear Lady Altmann,</p><p><br>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what is the latest estimate of the numbers of (1)<br>men, and (2) women, employees who earn less than £12,570 per annum in (a) full-time, and (b) part-time roles (HL6837).</p><p>The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) [1], carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. ASHE is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records. Table 1 (below) shows the numbers of (1) men, and (2) women, employees who earn less than £12,570 per annum in (a) full-time, and (b) part-time roles for April 20221 (the latest period for which ASHE estimates are available). As with any survey, estimates from ASHE are subject to a margin of uncertainty.</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p>Professor Sir Ian Diamond</p><p>Table 1: Estimates of the number of employee jobs with annual earnings below £12,570, UK, 2022 [1,2,3]</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Group</p></td><td><p>Number of employee jobs with annual earnings of less than £12,570 (thousands) [2,3]</p></td><td><p>Total number of<br>employee jobs in<br>group (thousands) [2, 3]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All employees</p></td><td><p>3,346</p></td><td><p>22,363</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>907</p></td><td><p>11,294</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>2,439</p></td><td><p>11,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full-time</p></td><td><p>309</p></td><td><p>16,547</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Part-time</p></td><td><p>3,037</p></td><td><p>5,817</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full-time male</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>9,856</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full-time female</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>6,691</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Part-time male</p></td><td><p>773</p></td><td><p>1,439</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Part-time female</p></td><td><p>2,264</p></td><td><p>4,378</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings</p><p>[1] Estimates for 2022 are provisional</p><p>[2] Employees on adult rates who have been in the same job for more than a year</p><p>[3] Figures for Number of Jobs are for indicative purposes only and should not be considered an<br>accurate estimate of employee job counts</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 12/04/2023 11:41:18 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL6837.pdf title UK Statistics Authority Response
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1441470

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the New Economics Foundation of 14 March 2022, that by April 2022, 5.2 million people will be living below the minimum income standard compared to prior to the covid-19 pandemic.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	140373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting all groups in society, including those on the lowest incomes. This is why we have put in place a strong welfare safety net that helps people who are facing hardship and are unable to support themselves financially – we are providing £240 billion of support through the welfare system, including £41 billion on Universal Credit and £105 billion through the State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>In the long term, we know that the best strategy to sustainably reduce poverty and increase people’s incomes is to help them into work. That is why the government is investing more than £6 billion in DWP labour market support over the next three years to help people move into, and progress in work. This builds on the success of the Plan for Jobs, with over 2 million fewer people expected to be unemployed than previously thought. In addition to this, we have taken action to make work pay by cutting the Universal Credit taper rate from 63p to 55p, and increasing Universal Credit work allowances by £500 per year, as well as increasing the National Living Wage (NLW) by 6.6% to £9.50 an hour for workers aged 23 and over in April 2022 which will benefit more than 2 million workers.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 140374 140375 question first answered 22/03/2022 11:28:29 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1441471

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the New Economics Foundation of 14 March 2022 that by April 2022, more than one in three households will have incomes below the minimum income standard.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	140374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting all groups in society, including those on the lowest incomes. This is why we have put in place a strong welfare safety net that helps people who are facing hardship and are unable to support themselves financially – we are providing £240 billion of support through the welfare system, including £41 billion on Universal Credit and £105 billion through the State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>In the long term, we know that the best strategy to sustainably reduce poverty and increase people’s incomes is to help them into work. That is why the government is investing more than £6 billion in DWP labour market support over the next three years to help people move into, and progress in work. This builds on the success of the Plan for Jobs, with over 2 million fewer people expected to be unemployed than previously thought. In addition to this, we have taken action to make work pay by cutting the Universal Credit taper rate from 63p to 55p, and increasing Universal Credit work allowances by £500 per year, as well as increasing the National Living Wage (NLW) by 6.6% to £9.50 an hour for workers aged 23 and over in April 2022 which will benefit more than 2 million workers.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 140373 140375 question first answered 22/03/2022 11:28:29 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1419135

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to increase wages and support the lowest-income households.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton South
	tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
	uin	117099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The National Living Wage is increasing by 6.6% to £9.50 an hour for workers aged 23 and over in April 2022, which will benefit more than 2 million workers. This means an increase of over £1,000 to the annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage and keeps us on track to our target to end low pay by 2024-25.</p><p> </p><p>We have taken further decisive action to make work pay by cutting the Universal Credit taper rate from 63p to 55p and increasing Universal Credit work allowances by £500 per annum. Taken together, this is a tax cut worth around £1,000 a year for around two million low paid households.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently announced the ‘Way to Work’ campaign to get 500,000 jobseekers into jobs by the end of June. We know work is the best way for people to get on, to improve their lives and support their families because people on benefits are at least £6,000 better off in full time work.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Plan for Jobs, the Government is also investing £99m in a new In Work Progression offer from April 2022, which will mean more people in work on Universal Credit will be able to access individualised Work Coach support to help them progress and increase their earnings.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also committed to helping low-income families with the cost of living, including providing £500m for a Household Support Fund to help vulnerable households with costs for essentials such as food, clothing and utilities over the Winter.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 08/02/2022 16:05:46 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1385586

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to increase wages and support the lowest-income households.
	tabling member constituency	South Basildon and East Thurrock
	tabling member printed	Stephen Metcalfe
	uin	904614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2021 answer text <p>The government is increasing the National Living Wage to £9.50 an hour from April 2022, which keeps us on track to meet our target to end low pay by 2024-25.</p><p> </p><p>We have taken decisive action to make work pay by cutting the Universal Credit taper rate from 63p to 55p and increasing Universal Credit work allowances by £500 p.a.</p><p> </p><p>These measures will help us to build a high skilled, high productivity, high wage economy.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 07/12/2021 17:19:52 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4092 label Biography information for Stephen Metcalfe

1273480

	registered interest
	date	30/12/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what key (1) economic, and (2) health, indicators they plan to use to inform their planned assessment of how best to support low-income families; and whether such any such assessment will include determining whether to make the £20 uplift to Universal Credit permanent.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
	uin	HL11651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit was announced by the Chancellor as a temporary measure in March 2020 to support those facing the most financial disruption as a result of the public health emergency. This measure remains in place until April 2021. As the Government has done throughout this pandemic, it will continue to assess how best to support low-income families, which is why we will look at the economic and health context before making any decisions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL11652 question first answered 11/01/2021 16:48:36 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
	tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1273481

	registered interest
	date	30/12/2020
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the timeline for their assessment of (1) how best to support low-income families, and (2) whether to make the £20 uplift to Universal Credit permanent.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
	uin	HL11652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit was announced by the Chancellor as a temporary measure in March 2020 to support those facing the most financial disruption as a result of the public health emergency. This measure remains in place until April 2021. As the Government has done throughout this pandemic, it will continue to assess how best to support low-income families, which is why we will look at the economic and health context before making any decisions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL11651 question first answered 11/01/2021 16:48:36 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
	tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1256339

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many employees earned below £12,500 in each region of England in the most recent year that statistics are available.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL10795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2020 answer text <p>The table below sets out the number of paid employees residing in English regions who were paid below £12,500 from April 2019 to March 2020, from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>423,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>1,292,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>959,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>881,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>1,050,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>1,128,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>1,777,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>1,639,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>1,038,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below sets out the number of paid employees in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from April 2018 to March 2019 who were paid below £11,850, from HMRC’s PAYE RTI data.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>9,900,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>893,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>503,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>301,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note:</p><p> </p><p>(1) These figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand employees.</p><p> </p><p>(2) These figures are as accurate as reported through PAYE RTI. However, PAYE schemes not paying any of their employees above the NICs threshold are not obliged to report employees' earnings through RTI. Additionally, PAYE RTI does not include income from self-employment, or any other source of income. Therefore, some employees may be excluded from these estimates and other employees may be included but have total income from all sources above the personal allowance.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL10796 question first answered 11/12/2020 11:48:53 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1144434

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Low Incomes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who will fall into the relative low income bracket if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	286195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/09/2019 16:29:15 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger