According to Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2016, a total of 7.4 million people, including 2.6 million children, are in poverty despite being in a working family.
The report by the New Policy Institute, finds that despite the economic recovery stopping poverty rates from rising higher, since 2010/11, in-work poverty has increased by 1.1 million people.
It says this has been driven by the ‘UK’s housing crisis’, high costs and insecurity in the private rented sector (PRS).
The report also reveals that a total of 13.5 million people, 21 per cent of the UK’s population, are living in poverty.
More than half of people in poverty in England live in London and southern England. The capital has the highest poverty rate at 27 per cent, which is six-per cent above the UK average.
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