Poverty: Children
Commons · Question 99786 · Tabled 15 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Kirsty Blackman
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing statutory targets for reducing child poverty and deep poverty through the Child Poverty Strategy.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 19 Dec 2025
Our Child Poverty Strategy fulfils our commitment to reducing poverty this Parliament and sets out our ambition to fundamentally fix the structural drivers of child poverty as part of a long-term, 10-year strategy for lasting change. From the beginning of...