AQW 2326/11-15


Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim


Tabled Date: 21/09/2011
Answered On Date: 28/09/2011
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister for Social Development how many children are living below the poverty line in each constituency.


Answer:
During the period 2005/09 the number and percentage of children living below the relative poverty line for each Westminster Parliamentary Constituency is presented in Table 1. The results are produced using the Family Resources Survey datasets for Northern Ireland, and the Households Below Average Income datasets for Northern Ireland.
Table 1:
Parliamentary Constituency
Number of children in relative low income
Percentage of children in relative low income
Belfast East
..
15
Belfast North
4,800
26
Belfast South
..
9
Belfast West
8,700
34
East Antrim
5,600
29
East Londonderry
5,100
23
Fermanagh and South Tyrone
7,400
33
Foyle
11,200
40
Lagan Valley
..
14
Mid Ulster
9,600
31
Newry and Armagh
..
25
North Antrim
5,100
21
North Down
5,000
22
South Antrim
..
18
South Down
7,900
24
Strangford
..
14
Upper Bann
5,200
21
West Tyrone
6,100
25
Northern Ireland
103,600
24