Question follow-through · 62243
Prisoners: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to establish a national, statutory mechanism to (a) identify and (b) support children with a parent in prison.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to establish a national, statutory mechanism to (a) identify and (b) support children with a parent in prison.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
I refer my right hon. Friend, the Member for Oxford East to the answer of 18 June 2025 to Question 58709.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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