Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 39328

Poverty: Disability

Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 24 March 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Labour — Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's green paper Pathways to work: reforming benefits and support to get Britain working, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact o

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The latest available statistics show that full-time work substantially reduces the chances of poverty. In 2022/23, working age adults living in families where no adults work were around 6 times more likely to be in relative poverty after housing costs, th...
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