Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 14 October 2024.
Kate Osamor
Labour/Co-operative, Edmonton and Winchmore Hill
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Gingerbread’s report entitled They are sanctioning the children, published on 16 September 2024.
Alison McGovern
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
The Child Poverty Taskforce will explore how we can harness all available levers to reduce child poverty, including by listening to stakeholders on potential changes, before publishing a strategy in Spring 2025.
Additionally, the Government is committed to reviewing Universal Credit so that it makes work pay and tackles poverty.
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