Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 31259

Social Security Benefits: Health and Disability

Tabled: 12 February 2025
Answered: 27 February 2025

Question

Ayoub Khan

IndependentBirmingham Perry Barr

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty taskforce will consider the impact of proposed reforms to the health and disability benefit system on child poverty rates in the UK.

Answer

Alison McGovern
Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity, and the Ministerial Child Poverty Taskforce is working to publish a Child Poverty Strategy to deliver lasting change. The Strategy will look at leve...

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