United Kingdom · Question · Written question
HL HL1353
Poverty: Statistics
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5 February 2020
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4 March 2020 · Answer
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Summary
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are planning to adopt the Social Metrics Commission's measurement of poverty across all departments following the Department for Work and Pensions' commitment in May 2019 to develop experimental statistics usin
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5 February 2020
Written question
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are planning to adopt the Social Metrics Commission's measurement of poverty across all departments following the Department for Work and Pensions' commitment in May 2019 to develop experimental statistics usin
Source: Lords
4 March 2020
Answer
In May 2019 the Government announced that it would develop a new experimental poverty statistic. The Department aims to publish these statistics in the second half of 2020 and this work is ongoing.
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-02-05/HL1353
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1176599
- uk · wq-1176599 · source updated 4 March 2020