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Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on protected funding for the child poverty strategy.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 6 May 2025
Target answer date: 8 May 2025
Answer: 12 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on protected funding for the child poverty strategy.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
We are working across government to develop the Child Poverty Strategy and are committed to exploring all available levers to reduce child poverty. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a part of the Child Poverty Taskforce and the Secretary of State has...

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