Source · Select Committees · Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 12
12
Acknowledged
DWP’s key collections of income-related poverty and wider social deprivation statistics are all published separately.
Conclusion
DWP’s key collections of income-related poverty and wider social deprivation statistics are all published separately. The Office for National Statistics also publishes separate statistics on household income. There is no consolidated publication and no clear narrative setting out how the measures all link together. The current arrangements are a missed opportunity to develop and present a comprehensive and coherent measurement framework which brings core income-related measures of child poverty alongside a wider set of dimensions or social deprivations reflecting the consequences and causes of that poverty. (Paragraph 53) 52 Children in poverty: Measurement and targets
Government response summary AI-generated
The government acknowledges poverty is a cross-government priority and notes that ONS is leading the development of an interactive tool to explore income and earnings statistics, addressing the challenge of separately published data.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government · verbatim extract
Acknowledged
The Government continually considers ways to strengthen and improve its statistical publications in line with the UKSA Code of Practice for Statistics, and as detailed in the GSS income and Earnings Coherence work plan and the Cross-Government Income and Earnings Coherence Steering Group, chaired by the ONS, will continue to liaise with OSR on this work.
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