Question follow-through · 30285
Poverty: Children
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues, to help tackle child poverty in (a) Birmingham Perry Barr constituency and (b) the West Midlands.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues, to help tackle child poverty in (a) Birmingham Perry Barr constituency and (b) the West Midlands.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. The Child Poverty Taskforce is developing the Government’s plan to bring about an enduring reduction in child poverty this Parliament, as part of a ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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