Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 45130

Employment: Poverty

Tabled: 8 April 2025
Answered: 28 April 2025

Question

Apsana Begum

LabourPoplar and Limehouse

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of working-age adults who are in work and live in (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty after housing costs.

Answer

Alison McGovern
Statistics on the number of working-age adults living in absolute and relative poverty after housing costs by family work status in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication at Households below average income: for ...

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