AQW 1728/11-15

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 07/09/2011
Answered On Date: 14/09/2011
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Social Development how many children in the East Antrim area are living below the poverty line.

Answer:

During the period 2005/09, 5,600 children in East Antrim Westminster Parliamentary Constituency were living below the relative poverty line. This equates to 29% of children in East Antrim Westminster Parliamentary Constituency. The results are produced using the Family Resources Survey datasets for Northern Ireland, and the Households Below Average Income datasets for Northern Ireland.