Poverty: Statistics
(asked on 5th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are planning to adopt the Social Metrics Commission's measurement of poverty across all departments following the Department for Work and Pensions' commitment in May 2019 to develop experimental statistics using that Commission's measurement; and whether they have any further information on this issue.
This question was answered on 4th March 2020
In May 2019 the Government announced that it would develop a new experimental poverty statistic.
The Department aims to publish these statistics in the second half of 2020 and this work is ongoing.