Poverty: Children
Commons · Question 99787 · Tabled 15 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Kirsty Blackman
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria his Department intends to use to evaluate progress towards the Child Poverty Strategy’s headline metrics.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 22 Dec 2025
We want to see an enduring reduction in child poverty over this parliament as part of long-term, 10-year strategy for lasting change.The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, published alongside the Strategy, sets out how we will track progress and evaluat...