Question follow-through · 3215
Wealth: Equality
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of wealth inequality.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of wealth inequality.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes the Gini coefficient for aggregate household wealth, which is a measure of wealth inequality, and this is released every few years using the Wealth and Assets survey. The ONS has published the Gini coeffi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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