Question follow-through · 111808
Poverty: Children and Pensioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of trends in (a) pensioner poverty and (b) child poverty across the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of trends in (a) pensioner poverty and (b) child poverty across the UK.
12 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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13 Feb 2026
Answer published
Statistics on the number of pensioners living in absolute and relative poverty in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication, the latest available being Households below average income: for financial years ending 19...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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