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Recommendation 9
9
Accepted
Ministers should reaffirm their commitment to measuring poverty through all four measures of children in...
Recommendation
Ministers should reaffirm their commitment to measuring poverty through all four measures of children in low income as set out in the Welfare Reform and Work Act
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The government reaffirms its commitment to measuring poverty by stating it will continue to publish all four statutory measures of children in low income, and analysts are reviewing the statistical validity of existing poverty lines and material deprivation indicators.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Government will continue to publish all four measures of children in low income as set out in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 in line with its statutory responsibilities. Analysts continue to review the statistical validity of the absolute poverty low income line and are intending to review the material deprivation goods and services to ensure they are still relevant. We will update the committee about this in due course. The Government develops and releases all statistics in line with the UKSA Code of Practice for Statistics and will continue to do so. Recommendation 4
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