Pensioners: Poverty
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of pensioners in poverty during the winter of 2024-25; and how this compares to the winter of 2023-24.
Answered by Torsten Bell
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 21 January 2025 to Question 24306
Statistics on the number of people living in relative and absolute poverty both before and after housing costs are produced on an annual basis and published in the Households Below Average Income statistics.
The latest available data covers financial year ending 2023, and is published by the Department here Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2023 - GOV.UK
Poverty figures relating to the financial year 2024-25 will be published in due course.
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