Poverty: Children
(asked on 3rd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the rate of child poverty has been in each year from 2010 to 2017; and what the rate of child poverty is forecast to be in each year from 2018 to 2020.
Estimates of the child poverty rate since 2010 are published annually in Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data tables.
These are publicly available in the link shown (see file “4_children_trends.ods” and tabs 4.1tr and 4.2tr).
We do not forecast rates of low income. Statistics on the proportion and number of children living in households in low income in 2016/17 have been pre-announced and will be published in the Households Below Average Income release by the end of March 2018. The government is committed to continue publishing this series on an annual basis.