Children: Poverty

(asked on 10th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were in poverty in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow and (c) Glasgow Central constituency in (i) 2005, (ii) 2010 and (iii) 2015.


Answered by
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Priti Patel
This question was answered on 15th June 2015

Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low-income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series.

Due to small sample sizes figures for Glasgow and the Glasgow Central constituency are not available as robust estimates cannot be produced for local level geographies. However, HBAI does provide 3-year average estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low-income for Scotland.

Analysis by region and country is presented as three-year averages as single-year estimates are considered too volatile. Figures are presented in financial year estimates and are only available up to 2012/13.

The latest publication is available at the link below: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201213

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