Poverty: Children
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to include targets on reducing child poverty within the planned child poverty strategy.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing work to publish a Child Poverty Strategy in the autumn that will deliver measures to tackle the structural and root causes of child poverty.
The publication will set out how we intend to monitor and evaluate the impacts of the strategy from this year and in future years. 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. More details will be set out in the strategy publication.
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