Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Williams and Douglas McAllister

Wednesday 24th June 2026 Commons Chamber

[David Williams (Stoke-on-Trent North) (Lab)]

5. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce inequalities experienced by children in poverty.

[Douglas McAllister (West Dunbartonshire) (Lab)]

10. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce inequalities experienced by children in poverty.

[The Minister for Women and Equalities (Bridget Phillipson)]

Tackling child poverty is a moral mission for this Labour Government. Background should not determine what people go on to achieve in life, but we know that inequality and poverty hold back too many of our children. We are improving the life chances of every child by scrapping the two-child limit, rolling out free childcare, Best Start family hubs, and free breakfast clubs, and expanding free school meals. Our child poverty strategy will deliver the largest reduction in child poverty in a single Parliament. This is the difference a Labour Government are making.