AQW 14198/22-27

Ms Sian Mulholland
Alliance Party
North Antrim

Tabled Date: 04/07/2024
Answered On Date: 06/08/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) to detail the number of children living in relative and absolute poverty that have been affected by the two-child limit in the last five years; and (ii) for a breakdown of this as a percentage of the total number of children living in relative and absolute poverty.

Answer:

Official statistics on the number of children living in relative and absolute poverty in Northern Ireland are derived from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). However, the FRS does not contain the data required to produce a robust estimate of the number and percentage of children living in relative or absolute poverty that have been affected by the two-child limit in the last five years.