Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 2 December 2025Answered: 8 December 2025

Asked by

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

Pat McFadden

The hon. Gentleman attacks the system, gateways and conditions that his Government created. When it comes to working people and non-working people, he will be aware that most children in poverty live in a household in which someone works, as are most of the children helped by the lifting of the two-child limit. Those who are not are often children under the age of three with a lone parent.