Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Louise Haigh and Rupa Huq

Monday 11th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Louise Haigh (Sheffield, Heeley) (Lab)]

12. What recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of in-work poverty.

[Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)]

19. What recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of in-work poverty.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Justin Tomlinson)]

There is clear evidence that work offers people the best opportunity to get out of poverty. A working-age adult living in a household where every adult is working is about six times less likely to be in relative poverty than one living in a household where nobody works.