| Heading: |
Children: Poverty |
| Question ID: |
1787054 |
| UIN: |
40018 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5090 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Tom Morrison
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| Asking Member handle: |
thomasmorrison
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@thomasmorrison
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to extend the child poverty strategy beyond the planned 10-year timeframe to set longer term goals to help tackle child poverty. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-26 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4083 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alison McGovern
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| Answering Member handle: |
Alison_McGovern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@Alison_McGovern
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| Answer text: |
The Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing urgent work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy, and we are exploring all available levers to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty. Our focus is on bringing about ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |