Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 98767
Poverty: Children
Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 18 December 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including targets and milestones for reducing child poverty in legislation.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe Monitoring and Evaluation framework published alongside the Strategy set out that a baseline report will be published in Summer 2026 with annual reporting on progress thereafter and Government already has a statutory duty to publish poverty statistics...
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