Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 99788

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, if he will make it his policy to set child poverty and deep poverty reduction targets at the start of each Parliament.

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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