Poverty: Children
(asked on 13th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children were living in poverty in workless households in each year between 2010 and 2017 (1) before housing costs, and (2) after housing costs.
National statistics on the number of children living in relative low income, in workless households, before and after housing costs, for the period 2009/10 to 2015/16 have been calculated from figures published in the annual "Households Below Average Income" publication.
Year | Number of children living in relative low income, in workless households | |
Before Housing Costs | After Housing Costs | |
2009/10 | 1.2m | 1.8m |
2010/11 | 1.0m | 1.5m |
2011/12 | 0.8m | 1.3m |
2012/13 | 0.9m | 1.4m |
2013/14 | 0.8m | 1.4m |
2014/15 | 0.9m | 1.3m |
2015/16 | 0.9m | 1.3m |
m = a million
Figures for 2016/17 are due to be published on 22 March 2018.