Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that the child poverty strategy is subject to robust external scrutiny after publication.

The Child Poverty Strategy, published on 5 December, sets out how we will hold ourselves to account on delivering the impact we have promised through this Parliament and beyond. The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, published alongside the Strategy, sets out our plans to track progress against the metrics of relative low income and deep material poverty as part of our ongoing commitment to transparency, accountability, and continued learning.

This includes a comprehensive programme of analysis focusing on the drivers of child poverty and the impact of specific interventions to learn what works and continue to make the best case for further intervention. We will publish a baseline report next summer which will set out the latest statistics and evidence, with annual reporting thereafter to monitor and evaluate progress.