Question follow-through · 37827
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to (a) the level of and (b) eligibility criteria for (i) disability and (ii) incapacity benefit payments on child poverty.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to (a) the level of and (b) eligibility criteria for (i) disability and (ii) incapacity benefit payments on child poverty.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 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 Strategy will look at all available l...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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