Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what estimate he has made of the number of children in Scotland living in poverty in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alistair Carmichael - Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice)
Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative low income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. This information is captured using the Family Resources Survey (FRS) and has been reported since 1998/99. These estimates are available for each financial year up to 2012/13, the latest period for which estimates are available.
Average figures for three survey years have been combined for region and individual countries; this is because single year estimates are not considered to be sufficiently reliable for geographies at a lower level than the UK. The estimates for Scotland can be found below:
Estimated number (millions) and proportion of children in relative low income by country and region (Before Housing Costs)
| Number (and percentage) of children in relative low income |
2007/08 – 2009/10 | 0.2 million (20%) |
2008/09 – 2010/11 | 0.2 million (19%) |
2009/10 – 2011/12 | 0.2 million (17%) |
2010/11 – 2012/13 | 0.2 million (17%) |
(Source: HBAI 2012/13
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many (a) adults and (b) children were living in poverty in each UK parliamentary constituency in Scotland in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alistair Carmichael - Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice)
Estimates of the number and proportion of adults and children in relative low income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. This information is captured using the Family Resources Survey (FRS) and has been reported since 1998/99. These estimates are available for each financial year up to 2012/13, the latest period for which estimates are available.
The number and proportion of adults and children in relative poverty is not available at constituency level. This is because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this level.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people of pensionable age there were in each parliamentary constituency in Scotland at the most recent date for which figures are available.
Answered by Alistair Carmichael - Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice)
The information below is arranged by UK Parliamentary constituency.
Constituency | Aged 65+ |
Aberdeen North | 12,983 |
Aberdeen South | 14,123 |
Airdrie and Shotts | 12,923 |
Angus | 17,127 |
Argyll and Bute | 19,487 |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 19,258 |
Banff and Buchan | 16,356 |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 20,180 |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 12,654 |
Central Ayrshire | 17,069 |
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | 13,775 |
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | 13,344 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 21,175 |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 18,492 |
Dundee East | 16,407 |
Dundee West | 14,357 |
Dunfermline and West Fife | 15,018 |
East Dunbartonshire | 16,838 |
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | 17,375 |
East Lothian | 17,911 |
East Renfrewshire | 16,362 |
Edinburgh East | 12,577 |
Edinburgh North and Leith | 12,750 |
Edinburgh South | 13,427 |
Edinburgh South West | 13,364 |
Edinburgh West | 16,712 |
Falkirk | 17,690 |
Glasgow Central | 8,907 |
Glasgow East | 13,738 |
Glasgow North | 7,990 |
Glasgow North East | 13,032 |
Glasgow North West | 13,025 |
Glasgow South | 12,824 |
Glasgow South West | 12,735 |
Glenrothes | 15,450 |
Gordon | 15,582 |
Inverclyde | 14,837 |
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | 17,346 |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 16,649 |
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | 17,637 |
Lanark and Hamilton East | 17,516 |
Linlithgow and East Falkirk | 17,744 |
Livingston | 14,189 |
Midlothian | 14,074 |
Moray | 17,370 |
Motherwell and Wishaw | 14,490 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 6,021 |
North Ayrshire and Arran | 18,939 |
North East Fife | 16,492 |
Ochil and South Perthshire | 18,394 |
Orkney and Shetland | 8,065 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 14,930 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 14,708 |
Perth and North Perthshire | 19,760 |
Ross, Skye and Lochaber | 13,424 |
Rutherglen and Hamilton West | 15,782 |
Stirling | 15,656 |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 14,336 |
West Dunbartonshire | 14,988 |
Source: General Register Office for Scotland, December 2013
More information can be found on the following link:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/population/estimates/special-area/ukpc.html.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when the next Joint Ministerial Council (a) Plenary, (b) Domestic and (c) Europe meeting will take place; and what will be discussed at each such meeting.
Answered by Alistair Carmichael - Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice)
The Joint Ministerial Committees take place in their Plenary, Domestic and European forms on a regular basis. Dates for future meetings are subject to agreement with the devolved administrations, as are the agendas which are agreed in advance via the JMC joint secretariat.