Question follow-through · 37231
Poverty: Disability
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 14 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
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.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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14 Mar 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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