Question follow-through · 44719

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty strategy will look beyond the 10-year timeframe.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
22 Apr 2025
Answer
28 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty strategy will look beyond the 10-year timeframe.

  2. 22 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Child Poverty Taskforce is continuing its urgent work and is exploring all available levers, including considering social security reforms, to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty. Our focus is on bringin...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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