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	date	11/06/2014
	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	Children: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of children were in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty in each region and constituent part of the UK in each of the last 20 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	200179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. HBAI uses household income adjusted (or ‘equivalised') for household size and composition, to provide a proxy for standard of living. This information is captured using the Family Resources Survey (FRS).</p><p>Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low income in the UK have consistently been reported using the FRS since 1998/99; these estimates are available for each financial year up to 2011/12, the latest period for which estimates are available.</p><p>All of these estimates can be found in the latest HBAI publication, available at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201112" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201112</a> (ISBN 978-1-78153-531-8).</p><p>Relevant estimates can be found in Tables 4.16ts-4.17ts for relative low income (pages 135-136) and Tables 4.22ts-4.23ts for absolute low income (pages 141-142).</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/06/2014 15:56:31 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

61305

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	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	Children: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of children in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty in each region of the UK in the next three years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	200180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Government does not produce forecasts of the number of children living in income poverty either locally or nationally. The number of children in poverty is dependent on a number of factors which cannot be reliably predicted.</p><p> </p><p>This Government does not believe it is possible to accurately project child poverty. We know that poverty projections are rarely accurate. For example, IFS projections in October 2011 suggested the number of children in relative poverty would fall by 100,000 in 2010/11, whereas in fact it fell by 300,000.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/06/2014 15:34:06 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane