Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 99035
Poverty: Children
Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 18 December 2025
Question
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Labour — Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider introducing legally-binding child poverty targets to reduce child poverty within this Parliament and beyond.
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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