Poverty: Children

(asked on 1st September 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty strategy will look beyond the 10-year timeframe.


Answered by
Diana Johnson Portrait
Diana Johnson
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 10th September 2025

The Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing work to publish a Child Poverty Strategy in the autumn that will deliver fully funded measures to tackle the structural and root causes of child poverty.

Our focus is on bringing about an enduring reduction in child poverty in this parliament, as part of a 10-year Strategy for lasting change, thereby reversing the trend that is seeing forecasts of child poverty continuing to increase. More details, including on the timeframes, will be set out in the strategy publication.

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