Child poverty to be looked at by MPs ahead of 2025 Budget
The Treasury Committee will look at child poverty in the UK in the latest session of its Budget 2025 series.
Meeting details
Appearing in front of MPs will be the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Head of Retirement, Savings and Ageing, Jonathan Cribb, and Sophie Howes, Head of Policy at Child Poverty Action Group. Professor Kitty Stewart from the London School of Economics, who specialises in social policy, will complete the panel.
In 2024, the Prime Minister appointed a Child Poverty Taskforce, led jointly by the Work & Pensions Secretary and the Education Secretary, who were tasked with developing a Child Poverty Strategy. Although an interim document was published in June, the full strategy hasn’t yet been published.
In this session, MPs are likely to question witnesses about what steps they believe the Chancellor could take in her 2025 Budget in order to alleviate child poverty in the UK, including on the two-child benefit cap.
The Work and Pensions Committee and the Education Committee are currently undertaking a joint inquiry into the Child Poverty Strategy. The Chair from each will be appearing as a guest for this session.