Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 99880
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 his Department has made of the potential impact of legally-binding child poverty reduction targets on cross-departmental coordination and prioritisation of resources.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonOur 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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