Question follow-through · 62918
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce the rate of child poverty in Yeovil constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce the rate of child poverty in Yeovil constituency.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
Delivering our manifesto commitment to tackle child poverty is a priority for this Government. The Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in autumn that will deliver fully funded measures to tackle the structural...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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