Question follow-through · 67497
Poverty: Liverpool Riverside
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of legally-binding poverty reduction targets as a mechanism to deliver change in Liverpool Riverside constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of legally-binding poverty reduction targets as a mechanism to deliver change in Liverpool Riverside constituency.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to tackling Child Poverty and the Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious child poverty strategy which we will publish in the autumn. The Taskforce will continue to explore all available levers to drive forward shor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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