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New delay for child poverty figures

Regeneration & Renewal, 9 May 2008

Ministers have delayed the publication of annual poverty figures for the second time in a month, it has emerged.

The Households Below Average Income statistics, which the Government uses to assess how it is performing against its targets to halve child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020, are normally released in March.

But last month, the Department for Work and Pensions said that the figures would be delayed until May, due to the "need for additional validation and quality assurance of the statistics" (R&R, 11 April, p7).

At the time, the DWP said that the figures would be published on 2 May, the first available date after the election "purdah" period, during which government departments are restricted in the announcements they can make.

But now it has emerged that the figures will not be released until June, because a "small but important inaccuracy" in the data has been discovered.

Last year's set of HBAI statistics revealed that there was an increase of 100,000 in the number of children living in relative poverty between 2004/05 and 2005/06 (R&R, 30 March 2007, p2).

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