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1696825

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date	18/03/2024
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children living in (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty in each year since 2007 in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland and (v) the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	19197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of Children living in absolute and relative poverty per country in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication in “table 4.22ts” and “table 4.17ts” (respectively) of<strong> “</strong>children-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2022-23-tables<strong>”</strong> at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2023" target="_blank">Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a><strong>. </strong>The latest statistics published on 21 March 2024 are for the financial period 2022/23.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available data can also be found on Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/03/2024 12:11:01 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1696827

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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: Children
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 living in (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty per constituency in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	19198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of Children living in absolute and relative poverty per constituency are published annually in the “Children in low income families: local area statistics” publication and can be found in tabs “6_Absolute_ParlC” and “5_Relative_ParlC” at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2023" target="_blank">Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. The latest statistics published on 21 March 2024 are for the financial period 2022/23.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available data can also be found on Stat-Xplore<strong>: </strong><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/03/2024 12:19:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1696836

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) Unicef and (b) the United Nations Rapporteur on extreme poverty on initiatives to tackle child poverty.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	19206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>DWP officials engage with a wide range of stakeholders including UNICEF.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/03/2024 12:24:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill