Question follow-through · 30286
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had recent discussions with Birmingham City Council on child poverty.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 19 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had recent discussions with Birmingham City Council on child poverty.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Feb 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to reducing and alleviating child poverty. The Deputy Prime Minister is a member of the ministerial Child Poverty Taskforce that has engaged extensively across regions and nations, recognising that tackling child poverty requi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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