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808282

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2017
	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	Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress his Department is making on reducing poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	902996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>Since 2010, there are 600,000 fewer people in absolute poverty – a record low.</p><p>This Government is committed to action that delivers a lasting change to the lives of some of the most disadvantaged people in society. This requires an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare system to tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage.</p><p>The evidence is clear that work is the best route out of poverty. Children in workless households are 5 times more likely to be in poverty than those in households where all adults work. And children in workless families are also more disadvantaged, and achieve poorer educational and employment outcomes than other children.</p><p>That is why we will continue with polices that support and encourage employment - reforming the welfare system to make work pay. And these policies are working: since 2010, there are 3 million more people in work, with 954,000 fewer workless households, and 608,000 fewer children in workless households.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/12/2017 17:33:42 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

723221

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2017
	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	Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what current measurements his Department uses to determine (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	71592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>DWP’s Households Below Average Income (HBAI) publication provides annual estimates on the number and percentage of people living in low-income households. HBAI is the foremost source for data and information about household income in the UK. The statistics are based on data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) whose focus is capturing information on incomes.</p><p>The latest release of the HBAI publication is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201516" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201516</a></p><p> </p><p>Absolute low income measures the number and proportion of individuals who have an equivalised household income below 60% of the median in 2010/11, adjusted for inflation.</p><p> </p><p>Relative low income measures the number and proportion of individuals who have an equivalised household income below 60% of the median.</p><p>Household income is measured as the total weekly household income from all sources, after tax, national insurance and other deductions. An adjustment called equivalisation is made to income to make it comparable across households of different size and composition.</p><p>The median equivalised household income divides the population of individuals, when ranked by equivalised household income, into two equal-sized groups, and unlike the mean is not affected by extreme values.</p><p> </p><p>Relative and absolute low income statistics are often utilised as measures of income poverty. We recognise the need to understand the complex issues that some families face and to develop a new approach to tackling poverty and engrained disadvantage. Because the root causes are not financial, our approach goes beyond the safety net our welfare system provides</p><p> </p><p>New analysis carried out by my Department shows that children living in families where no one works are significantly more disadvantaged, and achieve poorer outcomes than other children including those living in lower-income working families. This is why <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, focuses on tackling the complex barriers faced by many disadvantaged families and provides a framework for a continuing focus on improving their children’s outcomes, now and in the future.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/04/2017 09:14:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

746743

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	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	Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of any gap between male and female persistent poverty rates.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	1981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>Between 2011 and 2015 7% of adult men and 9% of adult women were in persistent low income Before Housing Costs.</p><p> </p><p>Over the same survey period 10% of adult men and 11% of adult women were in persistent low income After Housing Costs.</p><p> </p><p>An individual is considered to be in persistent low income if they live in a household whose income has been less than 60 per cent of the median equivalised net household income in at least 3 out of the last 4 survey periods.</p><p> </p><p>Full analysis of persistent low income is available in Income Dynamics (published in March 2017). The government is committed to measuring the percentage of children in persistent low income, as set out in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/07/2017 15:16:45 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

746841

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	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	Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on levels of poverty in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	2113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>No assessment has been made on the effect of the UK leaving the EU on levels of poverty in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>DWP’s Households Below Average Income (HBAI) publication provides annual estimates on the number and percentage of people living in low-income households. HBAI is the foremost source for data and information about household income in the UK. The statistics are based on data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) whose focus is capturing information on incomes.</p><p> </p><p>The latest release of the HBAI publication is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201516" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201516</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/07/2017 14:54:38 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

778867

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2017
	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	Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2017 to Question 108182, on universal credit, whether his Department has conducted any similar research on the nature of household poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	110132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>DWP has not conducted research into the impact of UC on household poverty. Estimates of the number and proportion of individuals in relative low income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series, available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/households-below-average-income-hbai--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/households-below-average-income-hbai--2</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The latest annual publication was on 2015/16 data and we will continue to monitor relative low income rates in future publications. The Prime Minister has set out clearly that she is committed to building a country that works for everyone – not just the privileged few. We know that work is the best route out of poverty, and Universal Credit is designed to strengthen incentives for parents to move into and progress in work. The impact of Universal Credit cannot be considered in isolation– it is a key component of a broader strategy to move Britain to a higher wage, lower welfare, lower tax society.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/11/2017 11:48:43 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

533565

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to reduce in-work poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford South
	tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
	uin	42160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>Work is the best route out of poverty, which is why this Government is focused on getting people into employment. Since 2010, 2.5 million more people are in work and average household incomes are at a record high.</p><p> </p><p>We are reforming the tax and benefit system to ensure work will always pay more than a life on benefits. That is why we are raising the tax-free personal allowance to £11,500 in April 2017, meaning 1.3m individuals will have been taken out of income tax altogether since 2015. This enables people to keep more of what they earn. We are also introducing Universal Credit which is designed to reduce poverty, ensure work pays and strengthen incentives to progress in work.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced the National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above, representing a pay rise of £900 this year for a full time workers on the minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also providing additional support for families by increasing childcare funding within UC from 70% to 85% of eligible costs, introducing Tax Free Childcare and extending free early years childcare for working parents from 15 to 30 hours.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/07/2016 09:00:20 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins