Question follow-through · 99787
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria his Department intends to use to evaluate progress towards the Child Poverty Strategy’s headline metrics.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Universal Credit · 10 Feb 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria his Department intends to use to evaluate progress towards the Child Poverty Strategy’s headline metrics.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
We want to see an enduring reduction in child poverty over this parliament as part of long-term, 10-year strategy for lasting change.The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, published alongside the Strategy, sets out how we will track progress and evaluat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Universal Credit
10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) number and (b) proportion of Universal Credit claimants have income levels above the income tax personal allowance.