AQW 23283/17-22 Written question to the Minister for Communities
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of children living in poverty in each constituency, in each of the last five years.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 28 September 2021
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 28 September 2021
- Answer due by
- 13 October 2021
- Answered
- 11 October 202113 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) annually release experimental statistics for “Children in low income families: local area statistics”. The number of children in each parliamentary constituency estimated to be living in poverty are presented in the tables below.
| Table 1: Estimated Number of Children (aged under 16) living in Relative poverty, by Parliamentary Constituency, 2015/16 to 2019/20 | |||||
| Parliamentary Constituency | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 (p) |
| Belfast East | 3,554 | 3,452 | 3,042 | 3,270 | 3,167 |
| Belfast North | 6,140 | 6,204 | 5,528 | 5,870 | 5,169 |
| Belfast South | 3,394 | 3,295 | 2,965 | 3,371 | 3,106 |
| Belfast West | 5,933 | 6,017 | 5,499 | 5,753 | 5,267 |
| East Antrim | 2,974 | 2,824 | 2,665 | 2,709 | 2,746 |
| East Derry | 4,690 | 4,792 | 4,152 | 4,185 | 4,129 |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 4,845 | 4,738 | 4,313 | 4,563 | 4,831 |
| Foyle | 6,497 | 6,562 | 5,921 | 5,782 | 5,152 |
| Lagan Valley | 3,225 | 3,260 | 2,973 | 3,269 | 3,312 |
| Mid Ulster | 4,581 | 4,404 | 4,002 | 4,299 | 4,661 |
| Newry and Armagh | 6,411 | 6,325 | 6,080 | 6,330 | 6,681 |
| North Antrim | 4,577 | 4,537 | 4,221 | 4,474 | 4,640 |
| North Down | 2,661 | 2,538 | 2,326 | 2,457 | 2,498 |
| South Antrim | 3,360 | 3,461 | 3,170 | 3,473 | 3,445 |
| South Down | 5,189 | 5,157 | 4,878 | 5,074 | 5,286 |
| Strangford | 3,230 | 3,225 | 2,921 | 3,063 | 3,011 |
| Upper Bann | 5,448 | 5,467 | 5,110 | 5,431 | 5,611 |
| West Tyrone | 4,396 | 4,394 | 3,814 | 4,088 | 4,208 |
(p) provisional
| Table 2: Estimated Number of Children (aged under 16) living in Absolute poverty, by Parliamentary Constituency, 2015/16 to 2019/20 | |||||
| Parliamentary Constituency | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 (p) |
| Belfast East | 3,241 | 2,868 | 2,450 | 2,594 | 2,525 |
| Belfast North | 5,584 | 5,145 | 4,307 | 4,728 | 3,955 |
| Belfast South | 3,146 | 2,833 | 2,398 | 2,774 | 2,549 |
| Belfast West | 5,318 | 4,855 | 4,224 | 4,525 | 3,927 |
| East Antrim | 2,700 | 2,421 | 2,188 | 2,198 | 2,155 |
| East Derry | 4,354 | 4,074 | 3,405 | 3,452 | 3,355 |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 4,514 | 4,105 | 3,560 | 3,832 | 4,047 |
| Foyle | 5,919 | 5,496 | 4,802 | 4,770 | 4,076 |
| Lagan Valley | 2,950 | 2,813 | 2,435 | 2,748 | 2,693 |
| Mid Ulster | 4,235 | 3,722 | 3,343 | 3,666 | 3,857 |
| Newry and Armagh | 5,919 | 5,429 | 5,113 | 5,306 | 5,534 |
| North Antrim | 4,257 | 3,889 | 3,395 | 3,708 | 3,759 |
| North Down | 2,459 | 2,184 | 1,875 | 1,976 | 1,931 |
| South Antrim | 3,042 | 2,929 | 2,602 | 2,936 | 2,824 |
| South Down | 4,812 | 4,419 | 3,963 | 4,297 | 4,350 |
| Strangford | 2,997 | 2,743 | 2,430 | 2,603 | 2,393 |
| Upper Bann | 4,981 | 4,636 | 4,122 | 4,459 | 4,521 |
| West Tyrone | 4,091 | 3,701 | 3,158 | 3,326 | 3,517 |
(p) provisional
Further information regarding the Children in Low Income Families (CILIF) statistics can be found at the link below.
www.gov.uk/government/collections/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics