Written questions

Poverty: Children

Commons · Question 7057 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 14 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Andrew Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of child poverty in (a) Mid Cheshire constituency, (b) Cheshire and (c) England.

Answer

Answered by Alison McGovern, 14 Oct 2024

Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and improve the life chances of every child. The Child Poverty Taskforce has started work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in Spring and will ex...