Question follow-through · 53334
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she expects the Child Poverty Strategy to be published.
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
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she expects the Child Poverty Strategy to be published.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
The Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious cross-government strategy focused on long-term change and improving children’s life chances. The Strategy will look at levers across four key themes of increasing incomes, reducing essential costs, in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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