Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris McDonald and Michelle Welsh

Monday 9th December 2024 Commons Chamber

[Chris McDonald (Stockton North) (Lab)]

16. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce levels of child poverty.

[Michelle Welsh (Sherwood Forest) (Lab)]

23. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce levels of child poverty.

[The Secretary of State for Education (Bridget Phillipson)]

Tackling child poverty is at the heart of our opportunity mission. After a decade of Conservative Government, far too many children are growing up in poverty. It is a scar on our society, a blight on young lives, and the centrepiece of the Conservatives’ shameful legacy. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and I are getting on with the job of chairing the child poverty taskforce, which has started the urgent work needed ahead of the publication of our child poverty strategy in spring 2025.