Poverty: Children
Commons · Question 99788 · 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, if he will make it his policy to set child poverty and deep poverty reduction targets at the start of each Parliament.
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...