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Pupils: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of pupils that have experienced hygiene poverty in each of the last five years.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
26 Nov 2024
Target answer date
28 Nov 2024
Answer
4 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of pupils that have experienced hygiene poverty in each of the last five years.

  2. 28 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    This government is committed to tackling child poverty as part of our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity for every child.Child poverty has gone up by 700,000 since 2010, with over four million children now growing up in a low-income family....

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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