Index of Local Deprivation

HL Deb 03 June 1998 vol 590 c30WA

Lord Plant of Highfield

asked Her Majesty's Government:

When they will publish the updated Index of Local Deprivation.

Baroness Hayman

We have today placed in the Library copies of a summary of the 1998 Index of Local Deprivation. The Index of Local Deprivation combines 12 up-to-date measures on different aspects of deprivation into a single indicator for all local authority districts in England. The index will be used as background information for the development of regeneration policy and programmes. A further review of the index will be commissioned later this year to take account of new data sources relevant to deprivation, which will include income support statistics for areas smaller than local authority districts. [HL2084]