The SNP’s Ian Blackford claimed last week the Conservatives have “pushed millions of people into poverty”. Millions of people in the UK do live in poverty, but there’s been relatively little change in the numbers since 2010. 🔍 Fact check and sources 👉
Relative low income measures the number of people in households where the income is below 60% of the national median average that year.
The government splits both of these measures into “before housing cost” and “after housing costs” in its statistics. When housing costs are taken into account, the estimated number of people in relative low income households dropped by approximately the same amount, from 13.5 million to 13.4 million. When we look at poverty as measured by absolute low income, the numbers show a bit of a drop. In 2009/10, before housing costs, there were an estimated 9.9 million people in absolute low income households. By 2020/21, this had fallen to 8.8 million people.
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