| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Take-up |
| Question ID: |
1788244 |
| UIN: |
41147 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4764 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase the take up of benefits in households with children in poverty. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-28 |
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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 continuing its urgent work and is exploring all available levers, including considering social security reforms, to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty. Our focus is on bringin... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |