Question follow-through · 12240

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of benefits sanctions on children in the households of those sanctioned.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 31 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 4 Nov 2024
Answer: 7 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

31 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of benefits sanctions on children in the households of those sanctioned.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Nov 2024
Answer published
Our manifesto commitment to tackle child poverty is a key priority for this Government. The Child Poverty Taskforce has already started urgent work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in Spring 2025 and will continue to explore all available levers to d...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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