Poverty: Children
(asked on 24th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest estimate of the number of children living in poverty in the UK.
This question was answered on 28th January 2019
In 2016/17 there were 2.2 million children in absolute low income on a before housing costs basis – 300,000 lower than 2010 and a record low. National statistics on the number of children in relative and absolute low incomes, before and after housing costs, are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication.