United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 116366
Poverty: Children
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26 February 2026
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3 March 2026 · Answer
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3 March 2026
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing legally-binding targets for reducing child poverty.
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26 February 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing legally-binding targets for reducing child poverty.
Source: Commons
3 March 2026
Answer
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...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-02-26/116366
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1885488
- uk · wq-1885488 · source updated 3 March 2026