Question follow-through · 18072
Children: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support (a) pre-school, (b) primary school and (c) secondary school-aged children living in poverty other than through the provision of free school meals.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- 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
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support (a) pre-school, (b) primary school and (c) secondary school-aged children living in poverty other than through the provision of free school meals.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
Tackling child poverty is at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and improve the life chances for every child. For too many children, living in poverty robs them of the opportunity to learn and to prosper.The Minist...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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