Eurostat Report on Poverty in Britain

HL Deb 03 June 1997 vol 580 cc25-6WA

Earl Russell

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they have any plans to publish the Eurostat Report on poverty in Britain referred to in the Guardian of 28 April 1997.

Lord Simon of Highbury

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics who has been asked to reply.

Letter to Earl Russell from the Director of the Office for National Statistics, Mr. Tim Holt, dated 30 May 1997.

I have been asked to reply as the Director of the Office for National Statistics to your recent question asking about plans to publish the Eurostat Report on poverty in Britain referred to in the Guardian of 28 April 1997.

The report, Income Distribution and Poverty in EU12–1993, was released by Eurostat on 14 May 1997. The report is number 6 in the Statistics in Focus—Population and social conditions 1997 series. A copy of the report is available from the House of Lords library.