Question follow-through · 6332

Universal Credit: Lone Parents

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.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 4 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 8 Oct 2024
Answer: 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
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.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
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 t...

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