Source · Select Committees · Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 22
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The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the delay in publishing poverty data through DWP’s...
Recommendation
The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the delay in publishing poverty data through DWP’s ‘Households Below Average Income’ statistics. DWP and HMRC have a wealth of administrative data on benefits, tax and earnings. DWP can make better use of these to produce ‘closer to real-time’ information on child income poverty to support its strategy. This ‘lead’ data would supplement the data gathered through household surveys. Its publication will help DWP to account for its performance in addressing child poverty.
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Government Response
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