Oral Question·Women and Equalities
“What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help remove children from poverty.”
Tabled: 4 November 2026Answered: 11 November 2026
Asked by
Chris Murray
Labour — Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Answering Minister
the Minister for Women and Equalities
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Women and Equalities (Bridget Phillipson)
The Government are taking decisive action to tackle child poverty, for instance by removing the two-child limit, expanding free school meals and rolling out Best Start family hubs. Measures in the child poverty strategy are expected to lift more than half a million children out of poverty in 2029-30. That is what Labour Governments do: they make the choices that lift children out of poverty.