Oral Question·Department for Work and Pensions
“What progress her Department has made on developing a Child Poverty Strategy.”
Tabled: 28 January 2025Answered: 3 February 2025
Asked by
Liz Jarvis
Liberal Democrat — Eastleigh
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Employment (Alison McGovern)
It is a terrible consequence of 14 years of Conservative misrule that around 4.3 million of our children are growing up in poverty. That is why the child poverty taskforce’s work to complete our strategy is urgent. Taskforce Ministers have met six times and have had extensive engagement with people across the country, including external experts, local leaders and children and their families living in poverty.