Question follow-through · 116366
Poverty: Children
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2026
Question tabled
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.
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2026
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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