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Social Rented Housing: Furniture Poverty

Asked by Kim JohnsonLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 16 October 2024UIN 7867

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty taskforce plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of furniture poverty on families in social rented homes.

Answered by Alison McGovern

The Child Poverty Taskforce has started urgent work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in Spring and will explore all available levers to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty. The taskforce is exploring a range of metrics and will make decisions alongside the publication of the strategy in Spring 2025.

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