Question follow-through · 120990
Food Poverty: Greater Manchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce food poverty in (a) Stockport constituency and (b) Greater Manchester.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce food poverty in (a) Stockport constituency and (b) Greater Manchester.
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Mar 2026
Answer published
Our plan to Make Work Pay is part of the mission to grow the economy, raise living standards across the country and create opportunities for all. This is why we committed in our manifesto to ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels. The Government...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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