Oral QuestionHome Office

“What assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of reducing the financial value of Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme Thank-You payments on the number of visas granted under that Scheme.”

Tabled: 20 October 2026Answered: 26 October 2026

Asked by

Martin Wrigley

Liberal Democrat — Newton Abbot

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer from Hansard

The Secretary of State for Education (Bridget Phillipson)

Tackling child poverty is at the heart of our opportunity mission. After a decade of Conservative Government, far too many children are growing up in poverty. It is a scar on our society, a blight on young lives, and the centrepiece of the Conservatives’ shameful legacy. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and I are getting on with the job of chairing the child poverty taskforce, which has started the urgent work needed ahead of the publication of our child poverty strategy in spring 2025.