Children: Poverty
(asked on 15th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children have been in poverty in each year since 2010; and what steps he is taking to reduce child poverty.
Estimates of the average numbers of children living in households classed as being in relative low income 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.xls” and tab 4.3tr)
The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty and disadvantage, and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government. We intend to bring forward a social justice green paper in the new year.