Question follow-through · 36791
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of national economic policies on addressing the root causes of child poverty.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of national economic policies on addressing the root causes of child poverty.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 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 a Child Poverty Strategy which will deliver lasting change. The causes of child poverty are deep-roo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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