Oral QuestionDepartment of Health and Social Care

“If she will take steps to help ensure the return of maternity and children’s services to the Alexandra hospital in Redditch.”

Tabled: 17 January 2024Answered: 23 January 2024

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Employment (Alison McGovern)

As well as putting in place breakfast clubs that mean children are ready to learn, and as well as the fair payment rate—we have discussed that—which will stop families being tipped into destitution by debt, the ministerial taskforce, chaired by the Work and Pensions and Education Secretaries, will publish the child poverty strategy in spring 2025, using all available levers across government to bring about an enduring reduction in child poverty in this Parliament, as part of a 10-year strategy for lasting change.