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Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children in Poole constituency who will become newly eligible for support measures introduced under the Child Poverty Strategy.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
11 Dec 2025
Answer
16 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children in Poole constituency who will become newly eligible for support measures introduced under the Child Poverty Strategy.

  2. 11 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Department does not hold data on the number of children in the Poole constituency who will become newly eligible for support measures introduced under the Child Poverty Strategy. Estimates are available for the number of children and households that a...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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