Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 37231

Poverty: Disability

Tabled: 11 March 2025

Answered: 14 March 2025

Named Day

Question

Richard Burgon

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of disabled households that will be in poverty by financial year (a) 2025-26, (b) 2026-27, (c) 2027-28 and (d) 2028-29.

Answer

Alison McGovern

Making an estimate of future disability poverty rates is difficult to do robustly. It would involve both projecting forward the impact of economic conditions on every household’s income and individual circumstance, and future trends in disability prevalen...

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