Question follow-through · 37468
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce levels of poverty among migrant children.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce levels of poverty among migrant children.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
Delivering our manifesto commitment to tackle child poverty is an urgent priority for this Government and the Ministerial Taskforce is considering all children across the United Kingdom in developing a Child Poverty Strategy. The causes of child poverty a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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