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.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 5 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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