Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the East Midlands are living in poverty (a) before taking housing costs into account and (b) after housing costs have been deducted from their incomes.

Estimates are available from the published Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data tables. These are publicly available in file 3_population_timeseries_region.xls, table 3.18ts here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/532115/hbai-2014-2015-supporting-excel-files.zip