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Health: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle health inequality caused by childhood poverty.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Dec 2024
Answer
11 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle health inequality caused by childhood poverty.

  2. 6 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    Tackling child poverty is at the heart of the Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity, and its commitment to raising the healthiest generation of children in history.The Department is working closely with the Child Poverty Taskforce to ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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