The reasons for Higher Rates of Poverty amongst EMG

• Lower rates of employment.
• Higher chance of being employed in lower paid occupations.
• Language barrier (English as a first language reduced poverty levels by 5%).
• Safety nets of benefits being restricted/reduced.
• Culture/size of family.
• People from the Pakistani ethnic group were over 3 times as likely as White British people to live in the most overall deprived 10% of neighbourhoods.