Question follow-through · 98258

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to issue guidance to councils covering Buckingham and Bletchley constituency on monitoring local outcomes of the Child Poverty Strategy.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 8 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 10 Dec 2025
Answer: 15 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to issue guidance to councils covering Buckingham and Bletchley constituency on monitoring local outcomes of the Child Poverty Strategy.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
We are strengthening our partnership with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) with our Civil Society Covenant. We recognise that the VCSE sector has a strong record of supporting families and is the bedrock of our communities. We ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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