Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 36700

Poverty: Children

Tabled: 10 March 2025
Answered: 13 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Richard Burgon

LabourLeeds East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty strategy will consider the potential impact of reforms to health and disability benefit on child poverty.

Answer

Alison McGovern
Delivering our manifesto commitment to tackle child poverty is an urgent priority for this Government, and the Ministerial Taskforce is working to publish a Child Poverty Strategy which will deliver lasting change. The Strategy will look at levers across ...

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