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.
About this written question
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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
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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- Special Educational Needs · 13 Jan 2026
- Pupils: Absenteeism · 13 Jan 2026
- Students: Loans · 13 Jan 2026
- Basic Skills and Financial Services: Secondary Education · 13 Jan 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
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.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
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Special Educational Needs
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Students: Loans
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Basic Skills and Financial Services: Secondary Education
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Basic Skills and Financial Services: Secondary Education
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Literacy: North West
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