Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of in-work poverty in the UK in comparison with other industrialised countries.

In-work poverty is measured differently internationally and making comparisons would not be robust.

Measuring in-work poverty in the UK is something we do take seriously and is reported on. Statistics on in-work poverty levels in 19/20 are available at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/ on the HBAI dataset.

It is not possible to provide a robust estimate for 2020/21 due to the impact the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had on data quality.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html