Margaret Curran – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Scotland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Curran on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many children in Scotland are living in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty.

Mr Alistair Carmichael

Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income series. These estimates are available as three-year averages to 2012/13, and show that in 2010/11-2012/13 the number and percentage of children in relative and absolute low income was 0.2 million (17%) and 0.2 million (18%) respectively.