Poverty in the UK: statistics - House of Commons Library
网页2024年4月8日 · This briefing explains UK poverty statistics, including historical trends and forecasts, and poverty by employment, tenure, ethnicity, disability and region.
Food poverty: Households, food banks and free school meals
网页2024年9月2日 · In 2022/23 there were 7.2 million people, or 11% of the UK population, in households experiencing food poverty, including 17% of children. In 2022/23, the Trussell Trust, a charity and network of foodbanks, supplied the highest recorded number of three-day emergency food parcels.
Fuel poverty in the UK - House of Commons Library
网页2024年2月19日 · Fuel poverty rates vary across the nations of the UK and cannot be directly compared due to differences in methodology. In the latest estimates, around 13% of households in England were classed as fuel poor, 20% in Scotland, 14% in Wales, and 24% in Northern Ireland.
Statutory homelessness (England): Causes and government policy
网页2024年7月30日 · Poverty is an example of how personal and structural factors can interact to increase someone’s risk of homelessness. A lack of housing supply in England is widely acknowledged as an important driver of homelessness.
Cost of living and inflation - House of Commons Library
网页Food poverty: Households, food banks and free school meals. This paper provides statistics on household food insecurity, food bank usage and free school meals in the UK, and tracks the impact of rising living costs.
Obesity statistics - House of Commons Library
网页2023年1月12日 · Adult obesity in England. The Health Survey for England 2021 estimates that 25.9% of adults in England are obese and a further 37.9% are overweight but not obese. Obesity is usually defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above. BMI between 25 and 30 is classified as ‘overweight’.
Income inequality in the UK - House of Commons Library
网页2024年4月17日 · Income inequality in the UK (664 KB , PDF) This briefing covers trends in income inequality, the impact of the rising cost of living, and inequality between regions, ethnic groups and disability status.
Food banks in the UK - House of Commons Library
网页2024年5月28日 · The Trussell Trust, an anti-poverty charity that operates a network of food banks across the UK, reported a 37% increase in the number of three-day emergency food parcels it distributed between 31 March 2022 and 1 April 2023, compared to the year before.
UK disability statistics: Prevalence and life experiences
网页5 天之前 · The prevalence of disability rises with age: in 2022/23 around 11% of children in the UK were disabled, compared to 23% of working-age adults and 45% of adults over State Pension age. Two thirds (67%) of people aged 85 or over reported a disability.
Improving asthma outcomes in the UK - House of Commons Library
网页Based on the experience of over 12,000 people with asthma, the two most recent reports have considered the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and geographical and socio-economic inequalities, on care: The Annual Asthma Survey 2019, The Great Asthma Divide. The Annual Asthma Survey 2020, Asthma Care In Crisis.