questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has had recent discussions with the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland on trends in the number of children living in households in relative poverty in that region.
answerText: DWP officials regularly meet with colleagues at the Department for Communities and the meetings cover a broad range of topics, including poverty. Absolute poverty is the government’s preferred measure as the poverty line is fixed in real terms so is not a...
heading: Poverty: Northern Ireland