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Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in poverty in (a) Northumberland, (b) the North East and (c) nationally in (i) 2022-23 and (ii) 2023-24.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 22 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 24 Jan 2025
Answer: 29 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in poverty in (a) Northumberland, (b) the North East and (c) nationally in (i) 2022-23 and (ii) 2023-24.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
In 2022/23 in Northumberland there were 10,858 children living in relative poverty before housing costs. Figures on an after housing costs basis are not available below region level. Source: Children in Low Income Families statisticsIn 2022/23 in the Nort...

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