Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 85803
Poverty: Children
Tabled: 28 October 2025
Answered: 4 November 2025
Question
Rebecca Long Bailey
Labour — Salford
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to include targets on reducing child poverty within the planned child poverty strategy.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing work to publish a Child Poverty Strategy in the autumn that will deliver measures to tackle the structural and root causes of child poverty. The publication will set out how we intend to monitor and evaluate the ...
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