Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 71376
Employment: Lone Parents
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025
Question
Matt Vickers
Conservative — Stockton West
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department provides to help single parents in Teesside access (a) training and (b) employment.
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsThe Government is committed to reducing child poverty. Evidence suggests that if parents work, including second earners and lone parents, this substantially reduces the risk of child poverty; and that growing up in poverty is a strong predictor of childre...
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