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date	14/02/2019
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms the Government uses for recording trends in poverty at the (a) national, (b) regional and (c) local authority level.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	221655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Trends in rates of low-income nationally and regionally are published in the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. The latest publication is available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201617" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>HBAI data cannot be used to produce breakdowns at local authority level as it is based on data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS), an annual survey of approximately 20,000 households across the UK. FRS sample size and coverage issues means that results broken down below the level of UK region are unlikely to be reliable. For alternative sub-regional sources, please see pages 58-59 of the HBAI Quality and Methodology report <a href="http://doc.ukdataservice.ac.uk/doc/7196/mrdoc/pdf/hbai_16_17_quality_and_methodology.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/02/2019 17:14:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1042096

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 19 December (HL12320), what assessment have they made of the main conclusions of the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK Poverty 2018, published on 4 December 2018, that (1) child poverty has been rising since 2011–12, (2) 4.1 million children are living in poverty, a rise of 500,000 in the last five years, (3) four million workers are living in poverty, a rise of more than half a million over five years, and (4) that in-work poverty has been rising faster than employment.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL12838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>(1) &amp; (2) We disagree with the reports emphasis and analysis being solely based on a relative poverty measure. There are 300,000 fewer children (both before and after housing costs) living in absolute poverty since 2010.</p><p>(3) &amp; (4) The risk of being in absolute poverty (before housing costs), if you are in work, has remained broadly stable over time. Also, there is an 8 per cent chance of working-age adults being in absolute poverty (before housing costs), which is the lowest since 2005. For children in couple families, there is only a 2 per cent chance of being in absolute poverty (before housing costs) if both parents work full-time. Also, the majority of those in-work poverty are those with part-time work only, single earner couples, or those in full-time self-employment. Finally, Universal Credit helps by incentivising the entry into work, offering smooth incentives to increase hours, and setting a general expectation that lone parents and partners should work (if not caring for young children or a disabled person) and offers generous childcare subsidies.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 22/01/2019 15:55:41 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1025354

registered interest
date	14/12/2018
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK Poverty 2018, published on 4 December.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL12320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>The figure quoted by the Joseph Rowntree Trust in this report is taken from official national statistics on the number and proportion of people in low income published by the Department for Work in March 2018. These statistics show that there are one million fewer people living in absolute poverty since 2010, including 300,000 children. Whichever way you look at overall poverty – relative or absolute, before or after housing costs, none are higher than 2010- in fact three are lower.</p><p>This Government believes that the best way of tackling poverty is by building a strong economy and getting people into work. Adults in workless families are around 4 times more likely to be in poverty than those in working families. Children in workless households are around 5 times more likely to be in poverty after housing costs than those where all adults work. Nationally, there are now over 3.3 million more people in work, around 964,000 fewer workless households, and around 637,000 fewer children living in such households compared with 2010. This is why we will continue with our reforms to the welfare system so that it encourages work whilst supporting those who need help.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 19/12/2018 17:09:15 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley