Question follow-through · 20057

Poverty: Leicester

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce levels of child poverty in Leicester.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
13 Dec 2024
Target answer date
17 Dec 2024
Answer
19 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce levels of child poverty in Leicester.

  2. 17 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 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 is working to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in Spring 2025. We published our framework ‘Tackling Child Poverty:...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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