Question follow-through · 72876
Universal Credit: Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to incentivise single parents to re-enter the workforce who are receiving Universal Credit childcare costs.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to incentivise single parents to re-enter the workforce who are receiving Universal Credit childcare costs.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to reducing child poverty. Evidence suggests that if parents work, including second earners and lone parents, this substantially reduces the risk of child poverty; and that growing up in poverty is a strong predictor of childre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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