Correspondence May. 01 2024
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: isolation and loneliness • Equity with Child Disability Payment and Adult Disability Payment • Higher poverty
Asked by: Marquess of Lothian (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Fabian Society report When I'm 64: A strategy to tackle poverty before state pension age, published on 17 April, which found that the number of people aged between 60 and the state pension age living in poverty increased by 140 per cent between 2010 and 2022, how many people currently aged over 60 and not yet eligible for the state pension are living in poverty.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The latest statistics show that in 2022/23, 20% (0.9m) of individuals aged over 60 and not yet eligible for the state pension were living in absolute poverty after housing costs.
Statistics on the number of individuals living in absolute and relative poverty in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication at Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab). The latest available data with age breakdowns can be found on Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/. The latest statistics published on 21 March 2024 are for the financial period 2022/23.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of children from single parent households that are in poverty.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Our focus is on supporting parents into work as we know that work substantially reduces the chances of poverty. The latest available statistics show that in 2022/23, children in workless lone parent families were nearly 3 times more likely to be in absolute low income after housing costs than children in working lone parent families.
We have consistently set out a sustainable, long-term approach to tackling child poverty based on evidence about the important role of work, particularly where it is full-time. Single parents are better off in work under Universal Credit due to a simple taper system (claimants can keep more of their earnings).
Found: investment in the country’s oil and gas sector, three out of five of Senegal's people live below the poverty
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: UK sanctions corrupt politicians in Uganda who stole from vulnerable communitiesFound: Over 60% of people in Karamoja live in poverty and many suffer from the devastating impacts of drought
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: MHRA’s AI regulatory strategy ensures patient safety and industry innovation into 2030Found: include under -representation of that group within the trai ning and testing datasets (‘health data poverty
Oral Evidence Apr. 30 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: Some of this is linked to the safeguarding panel on the issues of neglect and poverty that we are really
Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) Nor does it feel as if they have an anti-poverty strategy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None feelings, while also stepping back to consider tackling more structural determinants of health, such as poverty - Speech Link
2: None and social disadvantage.The figures in Scotland have been great—we have been lifting children out of poverty - Speech Link
3: None I am thinking in particular of people who are living in poverty and are, perhaps, in receipt of benefits - Speech Link
4: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) You have both talked about poverty and financial and economic inequality as well—it is about being able - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kidd, Bill (SNP - Glasgow Anniesland) Research notes,“plays a positive and enabling role in wider national priorities, including tackling child poverty - Speech Link