Poverty: Statistics

(asked on 13th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to publish poverty statistics based on the measures recommended in the report by the Social Metrics Commission A new measure of poverty for the UK, published in September 2018; and, in preparing these statistics, whether they are incorporating the proposals of that report that indicators of the lived experience of poverty should not be included as part of the central measure used to assess the number of people in poverty.


This question was answered on 27th January 2021

With re-prioritisation of workloads during Covid-19, this project was paused. We will provide an update on this work in due course.

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