Whilst we await the outcome of this consultation and the development of this statistic, the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) dataset continues to play a key role in understanding poverty.
The latest data was published in March. Child poverty was an area that made headlines, with more the 300,000 children across the UK fell into absolute poverty during the lebanon rcs data cost of living crisis. and the Trade Union Commission, among many others, commented on the latest data. More recently Torsten Bell, Chief Executive of Resolution Foundation suggested that we can “easily end child poverty in the UK”, whilst Fact Check NI responded to claims made on the BBC about poverty rates in the UK compared to those in Scandinavia.
Other Datasets
The Trade Union Commission made use of yet more datasets available via the UK Data Service when using the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) to highlight how pay packets worth less than 2008 in nearly two-thirds of UK local authorities.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies also used ASHE in their report on the recent trends in public sector pay.