Poverty: Children
(asked on 14th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
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.
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.
Estimates of the number of children in absolute low income households before housing costs in each year since 2005 are available below:
Year | Number of children living in absolute low income households before housing costs |
2004/05 | 3.0m |
2005/06 | 3.1m |
2006/07 | 3.0m |
2007/08 | 2.9m |
2008/09 | 2.8m |
2009/10 | 2.5m |
2010/11 | 2.3m |
2011/12 | 2.6m |
2012/13 | 2.5m |
2013/14 | 2.4m |
2014/15 | 2.3m |
2015/16 | 2.3m |
2016/17 | 2.2m |
2017/18 | 2.5m |