Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 99786

Poverty: Children

Tabled: 15 December 2025

Answered: 19 December 2025

Question

Kirsty Blackman

Scottish National Party — Aberdeen North

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing statutory targets for reducing child poverty and deep poverty through the Child Poverty Strategy.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

Our Child Poverty Strategy fulfils our commitment to reducing poverty this Parliament and sets out our ambition to fundamentally fix the structural drivers of child poverty as part of a long-term, 10-year strategy for lasting change. From the beginning of...

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