Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of trends in the numbers of children living in low-income households in Portsmouth.

Latest statistics for the levels of children who are in low income in the Portsmouth South constituency and Portsmouth are published “Children in Low Income Families”, and can be found here.

National and regional statistics on the number and percentage of children in low income are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication, and can be found here.

Due to methodological differences, the figures in these two publications are not comparable.