Poverty: Young People

(asked on 1st September 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the rates of poverty among people who are assessed as having limited capability for work and work-related activity, and who are under 22 years old.


Answered by
Baroness Sherlock Portrait
Baroness Sherlock
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 17th September 2025

No estimate has been made because the sample sizes in DWP’s Family Resources Survey and Households Below Average Income are too small to provide robust poverty estimates for this group of people.

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