Oral Question·Treasury
“What steps her Department is taking through the child poverty taskforce to help reduce levels of relative poverty.”
Tabled: 22 April 2026Answered: 28 April 2026
Asked by
Iqbal Mohamed
Independent — Dewsbury and Batley
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rachel Reeves)
The Government are taking action to tackle child poverty, by removing the two-child limit and by expanding free school meals and breakfast clubs, including the seven breakfast clubs already rolled out in the Dewsbury and Batley constituency. As a result, 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty in this Parliament: the biggest reduction in child poverty in any Parliament ever.