Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 116366
Poverty: Children
Tabled: 26 February 2026
Answered: 3 March 2026
Question
Tom Morrison
Liberal Democrat — Cheadle
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing legally-binding targets for reducing child poverty.
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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