Work and Pensions

Wednesday 9th March 2022 Ministerial Corrections

Regional Inequalities: Child Poverty

The following is an extract from the Westminster Hall debate on Regional Inequalities: Child Poverty on 2 March 2022.

[David Rutley]

Children living in households where all adults work were six times less likely to be in absolute poverty before housing costs in 2019-20 than those in workless households. We have been making a difference: there are 100,000 fewer children in absolute poverty before housing costs, and nearly 580,000 fewer children are living in workless households than in 2010.

[Official Report, 2 March 2022, Vol. 709, c. 398WH.]

Letter of correction from the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Macclesfield (David Rutley):

An error has been identified in my contribution to the debate.

The correct information should have been:

[David Rutley]

Children living in households where all adults work were six times less likely to be in absolute poverty before housing costs in 2019-20 than those in workless households. We have been making a difference: there are 100,000 fewer children in absolute poverty before housing costs, and nearly 540,000 fewer children are living in workless households than in 2010.