Employment: Poverty

(asked on 12th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of people in employment that are living in poverty.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 15th October 2020

National Statistics on the number and percentage of children in low income are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication.

Latest statistics for the number of people living in working families which are in absolute low income, before housing costs can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201819.

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