Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) he, (b) Ministers and (c) officials of his Department have had meetings with the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to discuss poverty in the UK.

Officials from my Department met the UN Special Rapporteur, took the opportunity to share our work with him and are considering his findings. Ministers did not meet the Special Rapporteur during his recent trip to the UK.

Details of ministerial and senior official (Permanent Secretary) meetings with external organisations are published on a quarterly basis, and are available on GOV.UK.