Poverty: Children
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider introducing legally-binding child poverty targets to reduce child poverty within this Parliament and beyond.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The Monitoring and Evaluation framework published alongside the Strategy set out that a baseline report will be published in Summer 2026 with annual reporting on progress thereafter and Government already has a statutory duty to publish poverty statistics annually. We have put these clear reporting arrangements in place so that the progress we make is transparent for all.
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