Written question asked by Danny Alexander (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 23 October 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 25 October 2007. It was answered by Jane Kennedy (Labour) on Monday, 29 October 2007 on behalf of the Treasury.

Joint Ministerial Committee on Child Poverty

Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Joint Ministerial Committee on Child Poverty will next meet; and if he will make a statement.

Answer: There are a number of other fora in which the Government and the devolved Administrations have discussed child poverty. In the last two years, officials have met at regular intervals.The CSR reconfirmed the Government's commitment to the target of halving child poverty by 2010, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer will meet with the Secretaries of State for Children, Schools and Families and Work and Pensions to oversee this PSA in the coming months.

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