Question follow-through · 98927

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish a fuller equalities impact assessment of the Child Poverty Strategy, including its impact on groups at highest risk of poverty.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
15 Dec 2025
Answer
5 Jan 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish a fuller equalities impact assessment of the Child Poverty Strategy, including its impact on groups at highest risk of poverty.

  2. 15 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    A full summary equalities analysis was published alongside the Child Poverty Strategy and is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-summary-equalities-analysis.The impacts of policies contributing to the Child Pove...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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