Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 73541

Deprivation Indicators

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

Perran Moon

LabourCamborne and Redruth

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using smaller geographic units in assessing deprivation at local levels.

Answer

Alex Norris
The indices of deprivation provide an assessment of deprivation at the lowest possible spatial level for which data is available, this is the lower super output level. These are aggregated up into functional spatial outputs for users of the Indices to use...

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