Question follow-through · 18095

Low Incomes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to increase the level of financial support for low-income families with more than two children.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Dec 2024
Answer
12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to increase the level of financial support for low-income families with more than two children.

  2. 6 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity, and the Child Poverty Taskforce has started urgent work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in Spring 2025. We published our framework ‘Tackling C...

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