Question reference: S4W-14800
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 9 May 2013
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Current status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 20 May 2013
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13033 by Margaret Burgess on 5 March 2013, what its position is on the findings of the Institute of Fiscal Studies report, Child and working-age poverty in Northern Ireland from 2010 to 2020, and whether it considers that these suggest that the number of children in Scotland who will be deemed to be in poverty by 2020 might be higher than originally forecast.
Answer
The recent report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies included projections for the percentage of children in poverty in Scotland from 2011-12 to 2020-21. This shows that the percentage of children in relative income poverty before housing costs is projected to increase from 17.6% of children to 22.7% of children, this implies an increase of around 50,000 children living in poverty by 2020-21.