Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 7867

Social Rented Housing: Furniture Poverty

Tabled: 8 October 2024
Answered: 16 October 2024

Question

Kim Johnson

LabourLiverpool Riverside

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty taskforce plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of furniture poverty on families in social rented homes.

Answer

Alison McGovern
The Child Poverty Taskforce has started urgent work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in Spring and will explore all available levers to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty. The taskforce is exploring a ...

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