Oral QuestionDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”

Tabled: 22 October 2020Answered: 5 November 2020

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Women and Equalities (Bridget Phillipson)

Tackling child poverty is the moral mission of this Labour Government. Background should not determine what we can go on to achieve in life, but inequality and poverty are barriers to opportunity. We are investing in our children’s futures through a massive expansion of Best Start family hubs, childcare, breakfast clubs and free school meals, alongside the end to the two-child limit, and our child poverty strategy will deliver the biggest ever reduction in child poverty in a single Parliament.