Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 85804

Poverty: Children

Tabled: 28 October 2025
Answered: 31 October 2025

Question

Rebecca Long Bailey

LabourSalford

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to allow for an adequate level of parliamentary scrutiny of the delivery of the planned child poverty strategy.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. The Child Poverty Taskforce will publish a Child Poverty Strategy in the autumn that will deliver measures to tackle the structural and root causes ...

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