Question follow-through · 906805
Poverty: Children
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing child poverty on the economy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing child poverty on the economy.
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Child Poverty Action Group estimate the cost to the country at £40bn per year, which is one of the reasons why the government is removing the two-child limit and lifting 550,000 children out of poverty in the final year of this Parliament.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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