Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of in-work poverty.

Statistics on the number and percentage of people living in low income households over time, including children and those in work, are set out in the annual "Households Below Average Income" publication available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201819

For children, this publication also shows trends in combined low income and material deprivation and combined severe low income and material deprivation

Published statistics cover the period from 1994/5 to 2018/19. National statistics covering the year 2019/20 are due to be published in March 2021. Pre-pandemic, in 2018/19, there were 100,000 fewer children in absolute low income than in 2009/10.