Question follow-through · 66091

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to publish a formal response to the Children's Commissioner's report entitled Growing up in a low-income family: Children’s experiences, published in July 2025.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
10 Jul 2025
Answer
15 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to publish a formal response to the Children's Commissioner's report entitled Growing up in a low-income family: Children’s experiences, published in July 2025.

  2. 10 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Child Poverty Taskforce, of which my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education is co-chair, is committed to listening to the voices of children and families and bringing in the voices of these families directly into our work. The Office ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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