Question follow-through · 40100
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of children in poverty as a result of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of children in poverty as a result of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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27 Mar 2025
Answer published
The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts. A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper wil...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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