Question follow-through · 21927
Homelessness: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty strategy will include measures to tackle child homelessness.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty strategy will include measures to tackle child homelessness.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
Delivering our manifesto commitment to tackle child poverty is an urgent priority for this Government, and the Ministerial Taskforce is working to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in Spring 2025. The Taskforce’s publication of 23 October ‘Tackling Child...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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