Question follow-through · 63857

Poverty: Children

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps is she taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce child poverty.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
2 Jul 2025
Answer
8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 30 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps is she taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce child poverty.

  2. 2 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The government is determined to tackle child poverty and will publish an ambitious strategy this autumn that will address its structural and root causes. As a downpayment on that strategy, we are expanding Free School Meals in England to all children with...

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