Oral Question·Department for Work and Pensions
“What steps he is taking to reduce the number of children in poverty.”
Tabled: 2 December 2025Answered: 8 December 2025
Asked by
Emma Foody
Labour (Co-op) — Cramlington and Killingworth
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Answer from Hansard
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Dame Diana Johnson)
At the autumn Budget we built on the substantial action that we have already taken to tackle child poverty and announced the removal of the two-child limit, which will lift 450,000 children out of poverty by 2029-30. That rises to 550,000 alongside other measures, such as the expansion of free school meals set out in our child poverty strategy, which was published on Friday. The Secretary of State for Education will be making an oral statement on the child poverty strategy this afternoon.