| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Poverty |
| Question ID: |
1794463 |
| UIN: |
45813 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4671 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Afzal Khan
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| Asking Member handle: |
AfzalKhanMCR
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@AfzalKhanMCR
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of poverty among people in receipt of social security; and if she will introduce a statutory poverty reduction target. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4083 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alison McGovern
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| Answering Member handle: |
Alison_McGovern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@Alison_McGovern
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| Answer text: |
Statistics on the number of people living in absolute and relative poverty in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication at Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2024 - GOV.UK. Tables ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |