Employment: Lone Parents
Commons · Question 71376 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Matt Vickers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department provides to help single parents in Teesside access (a) training and (b) employment.
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 8 Sep 2025
The Government is committed to reducing child poverty. Evidence suggests that if parents work, including second earners and lone parents, this substantially reduces the risk of child poverty; and that growing up in poverty is a strong predictor of childre...