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<p>This Government is committed to a sustainable solution to poverty in all its forms,
by building a strong economy and a benefit system that supports employment and higher
pay. Households where all adults are in work are around 6 times less likely to be
in relative poverty than adults in a household where nobody works. Compared to 2010,
there are 3.7 million more people in work and around 1 million fewer workless households.</p><p>
</p><p>We have worked with food insecurity experts, the Office for National Statistics
and the Scottish Government to introduce a new set of food security questions in the
Family Resources Survey starting from April 2019. This means that we will, in future,
be able to monitor the prevalence and severity of household food insecurity across
the UK and for specific groups, to better understand the drivers of food insecurity
and identify which groups are most at risk.</p>
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