National statistics on the number of people in relative and absolute low income are set out in the annual "Households Below Average Income" publication. The number and proportion of children in low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.<\/p>
3-year estimates for the proportion of children in before and after housing cost low income in the Wales region are available using the link below, in the file \u201cchildren-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2017-18-tables.ods\u201d.<\/p>
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip<\/a><\/p> Table 4.16ts shows child relative low income estimates and table 4.22ts shows child absolute low income estimates.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of child poverty (a) before and (b) after housing costs have been taken into account in each local authority in Wales in each year for which data is available.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1127931", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1127931/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Absolute low income takes the 60 per cent of median income threshold from 2010/11 and moves this in line with inflation. This is designed to assess how low incomes are faring with reference to inflation. The percentage of individuals in absolute low income will decrease if individuals with lower incomes see their real incomes rising (increasing by more than inflation).<\/p> <\/p> Trends in the number of children in absolute poverty can be found using the link below, in table 4.4tr, in the file \u201cchildren-trends-hbai-1994-95-2017-18-tables.ods\u201d.<\/p> <\/p> https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip<\/a><\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Between 2004/05 and 2009/10 the number of children in absolute low income households before housing costs fell, indicating that children in lower income households saw their real incomes rise by more than inflation. However, the number of children in absolute low income households after housing costs was 3.8m in both 2004/05 and 2009/10. This suggests that for low income households with children, these real rises in income were offset by increasing housing costs during this period.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254154 on Poverty: Children, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the decline in the number of children in absolute low-income households between 2004-5 and 2009-10.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1127958", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1127958/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " National statistics on the number of children living in absolute low income are published annually in the \u201cHouseholds Below Average Income\u201d publication.<\/p> <\/p> HBAI data is unavailable before 1994/95 and are for the United Kingdom from 2002/03 onwards. Earlier years are for Great Britain only. The number of children in absolute poverty from 1994/95 can be found using the link below, in table 4.4tr, in the file \u201cchildren-trends-hbai-1994-95-2017-18-tables.ods\u201d.<\/p> <\/p> https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of children in absolute poverty in each year between 1989 and 1997.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1126653", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1126653/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Estimates of the number of children living in low income are published in the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. The latest publication is available here<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> Estimates of the number of children in absolute low income households before housing costs in each year since 2005 are available below:<\/p> <\/p>
Year<\/p><\/td> | Number of children living in absolute low income households before housing costs<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2004/05<\/p><\/td> | 3.0m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2005/06<\/p><\/td> | 3.1m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2006/07<\/p><\/td> | 3.0m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2007/08<\/p><\/td> | 2.9m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2008/09<\/p><\/td> | 2.8m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2009/10<\/p><\/td> | 2.5m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2010/11<\/p><\/td> | 2.3m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2011/12<\/p><\/td> | 2.6m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2012/13<\/p><\/td> | 2.5m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2013/14<\/p><\/td> | 2.4m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2014/15<\/p><\/td> | 2.3m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2015/16<\/p><\/td> | 2.3m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2016/17<\/p><\/td> | 2.2m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2017/18<\/p><\/td> | 2.5m<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4423", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Will Quince"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Colchester"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Will Quince"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-05-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-05-20T16:38:42.783Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "29"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-05-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Poverty: Children"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimates he has made the number of children in absolute child poverty in each year since 2005.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/534", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Ruane"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Vale of Clwyd"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Chris Ruane"} ], "uin" : "254154"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 4, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} } |