The Child Poverty Strategy is a joint Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions initiative to develop and implement policies reducing child poverty in the UK. The government has established a Child Poverty Taskforce to coordinate efforts, and Parliament is scrutinizing the government's concrete policy proposals and cross-departmental coordination, including specific action in Scotland.
In response to: Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty
In response to: Child Poverty Strategy: Child Rights
Strategy document setting out the government’s ambitious decade long mission to tackle the drivers of child poverty across the UK.
This Child Rights Impact Assessment outlines how the government has considered the rights of children in developing the Child Poverty Strategy: Our Children, Our Future.
Analysis of the impacts of the planned policies in the Child Poverty Strategy on children and families with protected characteristics.
In response to: Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy
A publication of the report: Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy
First Reading 15:49:00 A Bill to make provision for establishing a new government Ministry, the Ministry for Poverty Prevention; to make provision for the objectives and powers of that Ministry; to make provision that the Ministry can only be abolished …
14:00:00 Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) (Lab): I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to debate my Bill on the Floor of the House. The Bill seeks …
Motion to Approve 15:07:00 Moved by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth: That the draft regulations laid before the House on 16 October be approved. Relevant document s : 10th Report from the Joint Committee o n Statutory Instruments and 11th Report …
Motion to Consider 16:22:00 Moved by Lord Freud: That the Grand Committee do consider the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Target) Regulations 2014. Relevant document s : 10th Report from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, 11th Report from …
Returned from the Commons The Bill was returned from the Commons with the amendments agreed to. House adjourned at 9.35 pm.
Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83A(7)) , That the following provisions shall apply to the Child Poverty Bill for the purpose of supplementing the Order of 20 July 2009 in the last Session of Parliament (Child …
Consideration of Lords amendments 19:23:00 The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Stephen Timms): I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1. Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst): With this is will be convenient to take …
Third Reading 18:39:00 Clause 1 : The 2010 poverty target Page 1, line 10, leave out from “the” to end of line and insert “relevant income group for the purpose of section 3 (the relative low income target)” The Parliamentary …
Report 15:16:00 Amendment 1 had been retabled as Amendment 1A. Amendment 1A Moved by 1A: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause— “2010 poverty target (1) The Secretary of State must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end …
Report (Continued) 20:35:00 Amendment 17 Moved by 17: Clause 8, page 4, line 26, at end insert— “( ) When considering taking any measures under subsection (5)(b), the Secretary of State must take account of the likelihood of disproportionate spending …
Order of Consideration Motion 15:08:00 Moved By Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton: That the amendments for the Report stage be marshalled and considered in the following order: Clauses 1 to 7, Schedule 1, Clauses 8 to 16, Schedule 2, Clauses 17 …
Committee (5th Day) 15:30:00 The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen): My Lords, if there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, the Committee will adjourn as soon as the Division Bells are rung …
Committee (4th Day) 15:45:00 The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Viscount Ullswater): My Lords, if there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, the Committee will adjourn as soon as the Division Bells are rung and will resume …
Committee (3rd Day) 15:31:00 Schedule 1 : The Child Poverty Commission Amendment 22 Moved by 22: Schedule 1, page 18, line 5, at end insert— “( ) the member is unfit for office by reason of misconduct,( ) the member …
Committee (2nd Day) 14:00:00 Clause 6 : Interpretation of terms used in relation to targets Amendment 9 Moved by 9: Clause 6, page 3, line 9, at end insert— “(ba) the circumstances in which a child living in communal accommodation …
Committee (1st Day) 15:31:00 Amendment 1 Moved by 1: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause— “2010 child poverty target (1) The Secretary of State must, before the end of the period of three months beginning with the day …
Order of Consideration Motion 11:53:00 Moved By Lord McKenzie of Luton: That it be an instruction to the Grand Committee to which the Child Poverty Bill has been committed that they consider the bill in the following order: Clauses 1 …
Second Reading 15:36:00 Moved By Lord McKenzie of Luton: That the Bill be read a second time. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government & Department for Work and Pensions (Lord McKenzie of Luton): My Lords, …
Second Reading (Continued) 18:23:00 The Lord Bishop of Leicester: My Lords, in spite of our discussions on climate change and terrorism, the debate that now resumes on the Child Poverty Bill is surely a matter of equal moment to our …
First Reading 16:28:00 The Bill was read a first time and ordered to be printed.
[Relevant Document: The Twenty-eighth Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights of Session 2008-09, Legislative Scrutiny: Child Poverty Bill, HC 1114.] Consideration of Bill New Clause 1 The relative low income after housing costs target ‘(1) The relative low …
[Relevant Documents: The transcript of oral evidence taken before the Work and Pensions Committee on 17 June 2009 on Child Poverty, HC 702; Second Report of the Work and Pensions Committee, Session 2007-08, HC 42-I, on The best start in …