Question follow-through · 99645
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the geographic distribution of deep material poverty across the UK.
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
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the geographic distribution of deep material poverty across the UK.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold data on the number of children in deep material poverty broken down by geographical region or constituency. Estimates are available for the number of children and households that are expected to gain from the removal of two-ch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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