Question follow-through · 56265
Poverty: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help tackle poverty among parents who are carers of disabled children.
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
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jun 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help tackle poverty among parents who are carers of disabled children.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jun 2025
Answer published
Tackling child poverty is an urgent priority for this Government. The Child Poverty Taskforce’s publication of 23 October ‘Tackling Child Poverty: Developing our Strategy’ sets out how we are developing the Strategy, exploring all available levers to driv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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