Poverty

(asked on 12th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people living in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty in (i) England, (ii) Yorkshire and (iii) the city of York.


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Will Quince
This question was answered on 20th July 2021

National Statistics on the number and percentage of individuals in low income are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. Data for the city of York is unavailable due to insufficient sample size.

Latest statistics for the number of people who are in low income in England and Yorkshire and the Humber, covering 2019/20, can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2020 in population-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2019-20-tables data table 3.18ts (relative low income, before and after housing costs) and in data table 3.20ts (absolute low income, before and after housing costs).

This Government is wholly committed to supporting those on low incomes, including by increasing the living wage, and by spending £111 billion on welfare support for people of working age in 2020/21. This included around £7.4 billion of Covid-related welfare policy measures.

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