This Government is wholly committed to tackling poverty. Throughout the pandemic, our priority has been to support the most vulnerable including through spending an additional £7.4billion to strengthen the welfare system, taking our total expenditure on welfare support for people of working age to an estimated £112 billion in 2020/21. Additionally, in December 2020 we introduced our Covid Winter Grant Scheme, providing funding to Local Authorities in England to enable them to support people with food and essential utility bills during the coldest months. It will now run until June as the Covid Local Support Grant, with a total investment of £269m.<\/p>
<\/p>
National Statistics on the number and percentage of children in low income are published annually in the \u201cHouseholds Below Average Income\u201d publication. Data for East Ham is unavailable due to insufficient sample size.<\/p>
<\/p>
Latest statistics for the levels of children who are in low income in England, covering 2019/20, can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2020<\/a> ,\u201cchildren-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2019-20-tables\u201d in table 4.16ts (relative low income, before and after housing costs) and in table 4.22ts (absolute low income, before and after housing costs).<\/p> <\/p> In the three years to 2019/20, the absolute child poverty rate, before housing costs, in England was 18%, down 3 percentage points since the three years to 2009/10.<\/p> <\/p> The Department now publishes supplementary official statistics on the number of children in low income families at constituency level. Children in Low Income Families data is published annually.<\/p> <\/p> In 2019/20 the absolute levels of child poverty, before housing costs, in East Ham was 22%. The latest figures on the number of children who are in low income in East Ham and in England, covering 2019/20, can be found at:<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2020/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-fye-2015-to-fye-2020<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Due to methodological differences, the figures in these two publications are not comparable.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1316770/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " No assessment has been made.<\/p> <\/p> This Government is wholly committed to supporting those on low incomes, including by increasing the living wage, and by spending an estimated £112 billion on welfare support for people of working age in 2020/21.\u2002This included around £7.4 billion of Covid-related welfare policy measures.<\/p> <\/p> We introduced our Covid Winter Grant Scheme providing funding to Local Authorities in England to help the most vulnerable children and families stay warm and well fed during the coldest months. It will now until June as the Covid Local Support Grant, with a total investment of £269m.<\/p> <\/p> As the economy recovers, our ambition is to help people move into and progress in work as quickly as possible based on clear evidence around the importance of employment, particularly where it is full-time, in substantially reducing the risks of poverty. We are investing over £30 billion in our ambitious Plan for Jobs which is already delivering for people of all ages right across the country.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the £20 uplift in Universal Credit on levels of child poverty in (a) England, and (b) Liverpool, Riverside constituency.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1316790/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " No such assessment has been made.<\/p> <\/p> This Government has long championed the principle of work as the best route out of poverty and towards financial independence. This approach is based on clear evidence about the importance of employment, particularly where it is full-time, in substantially reducing the risks of poverty and in improving long-term outcomes for families and children.<\/p> <\/p> Getting people back to work and supporting them to progress is therefore at the heart of our approach to tackling poverty and building back better. Our Plan for Jobs is already delivering for people of all ages right across the country and includes investing over £7 billion on new schemes such as the £2 billion Kickstart Scheme, the Restart Scheme and our Job Entry Targeted Support Scheme.<\/p> No such assessment has been made.<\/p> <\/p> This Government is wholly committed to supporting those on low incomes, including by increasing the living wage, and by spending an estimated £112 billion on welfare support for people of working age in 2020/21.\u2002This included around £7.4 billion of Covid-related welfare policy measures, including a temporary increase to the Universal Credit Standard Allowance of £20 per week<\/p> <\/p> National Statistics on the number and percentage of children in low income are published annually in the \u201cHouseholds Below Average Income\u201d publication. Data for Newcastle East is unavailable due to insufficient sample size, however, data for the North East region is available.<\/p> <\/p> The latest figures on the number of children who are in low income in the North East, and in the UK, covering up to 2019/20, can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2020<\/a> , \u201cchildren-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2019-20-tables\u201d in table 4.16ts (relative low income, before and after housing costs) and in table 4.22ts (absolute low income, before and after housing costs).<\/p> <\/p> Across the UK, there were 100,000 fewer children in absolute low income, before housing costs in 2019/20 than in 2009/10.<\/p> <\/p>