AQW 2326/11-15 Written question to the Minister for Social Development
To ask the Minister for Social Development how many children are living below the poverty line in each constituency.
Asked by Stewart Dickson MLA on 21 September 2011
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 21 September 2011
- Answer due by
- 6 October 2011
- Answered
- 28 September 20117 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
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 |