Oral Question·Department for Education
“What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce levels of child poverty.”
Tabled: 3 December 2024Answered: 9 December 2024
Asked by
Michelle Welsh
Labour — Sherwood Forest
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Education
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.