Written questions

Social Security Benefits: Health and Disability

Commons · Question 31259 · Tabled 12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 27 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Ayoub Khan

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

Answered by Alison McGovern, 27 Feb 2025

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...