| Heading: |
Poverty |
| Question ID: |
1824901 |
| UIN: |
69109 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-18 |
| 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, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing cyclical target-setting for poverty reduction. |
| Is named day: |
true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-09-01 |
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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 Government is committed to tackling poverty, including deep poverty across the UK. The Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious child poverty strategy which we will publish in the autumn. The Strategy will look at levers across four key them... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |