Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 99552

Children: Poverty

Tabled: 12 December 2025

Answered: 28 January 2026

Question

Seamus Logan

Scottish National Party — Aberdeenshire North and Moray East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that measures outlined in the Child Poverty Strategy designed to support families with newborn babies, including voucher schemes, are accessible to families seek

Answer

Olivia Bailey

The government is committed to ensuring that vulnerable migrant children receive the support to which they are entitled. Asylum seekers and their dependents who would otherwise be destitute can obtain support under Section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum...

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