Question follow-through · 85408

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to include measures to support children in the deepest poverty in the forthcoming Child Poverty Strategy.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
29 Oct 2025
Answer
11 Nov 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to include measures to support children in the deepest poverty in the forthcoming Child Poverty Strategy.

  2. 29 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Heywood and Middleton North, to the answer of [DATE] to Question 82529.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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