Written Question·Treasury·UIN 63857

Poverty: Children

Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025

Question

Cat Eccles

LabourStourbridge

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps is she taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce child poverty.

Answer

Darren Jones
The government is determined to tackle child poverty and will publish an ambitious strategy this autumn that will address its structural and root causes. As a downpayment on that strategy, we are expanding Free School Meals in England to all children with...

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