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Employment: Poverty

Asked by Andrew CooperLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 10 October 2024UIN 7059

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of people in employment who are living in poverty in Mid Cheshire constituency.

Answered by Alison McGovern

Statistics for the total number of people in employment living in relative and absolute poverty are not available at a constituency level.

Statistics on the total number of people in employment living in relative and absolute poverty both before and after housing costs at regional level are published annually in the Households Below Average Income statistics Households below average income (HBAI) statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab).

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