Question follow-through · 50447
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of children in poverty.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- 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 assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of children in poverty.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
Statistics on the number of children living in absolute and relative poverty in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication, the latest available being Households below average income: for financial years ending 199...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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