MPs quiz ministers on Child Poverty Strategy
MPs from the Education and Work and Pensions Committees will quiz government ministers on the government’s work to reduce child poverty.
Meeting details
Last December the government published its Child Poverty Strategy, which it estimates will lift half a million children out of poverty by the end of the current Parliament.
MPs are likely to ask the ministers for Employment and Early Education, Dame Diana Johnson and Olivia Bailey respectively, whether the strategy is ambitious enough and whether it is still a priority within government, given Secretaries of State are no longer responsible for delivering it.
They are also likely to ask how the strategy will interact with other government policies on employment, benefits, housing and education, particularly in the early years.
Committee members are also likely to ask about the government’s approach to setting targets, following the Children’s Commissioner for England’s call for ministers to set a target to reduce deep material poverty to zero, and how it intends to evaluate whether the strategy is succeeding.