(asked on 3rd December 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing child poverty on the economy.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 9th December 2025

The Child Poverty Action Group estimate the cost to the country at £40bn per year, which is one of the reasons why the government is removing the two-child limit and lifting 550,000 children out of poverty in the final year of this Parliament.

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