Question follow-through · 86985
Families: Food Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of families with children relying on emergency food parcels.
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
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of families with children relying on emergency food parcels.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
We are committed to tackling poverty and ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels. We are expanding Free School Meals to every pupil whose household is in receipt of Universal Credit, which will lift 100,000 children out of poverty by the end of t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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