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Social Security Benefits: Children

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 4328, tabled on 29 November 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ending the two-child limit on the number of children living in poverty; and if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of such a decision.

Answered on

5 December 2023

There are no plans to review this policy.

The latest available estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of such a decision was made in 2019, and can be found here.