Question follow-through · 37794
Universal Credit: Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 34683 on Universal Credit: Childcare, if she will have discussions with claimants on the potential merits of establishing definitions for those terms.
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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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 34683 on Universal Credit: Childcare, if she will have discussions with claimants on the potential merits of establishing definitions for those terms.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises that childcare needs vary from customer to customer and area to area, and we are committed to working with the Department for Education to increase availability so that we can support customers’ varied needs. At all times we want...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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