Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of children living in workless households in the East Midlands.

The latest estimate of the number of children living in workless households** in the East Midlands is 99,000 (11.4%). In 2010 there were 131,000 such children; this is a decrease of 25%.

Nationally the number of children living in workless households has fallen by a third and now stands at just under 1.3 million (10.2%).

Notes:

Source: Labour Force Survey from April – June 2018 published by the Office of National Statistics

** Households including at least one person aged 16 to 64