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Social Security Benefits: Children

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 1032, tabled on 22 July 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an estimate of the potential impact of removing the two-child benefit cap on the number of children in poverty.

Answered on

30 July 2024

Recognising the wide-ranging causes of child poverty, our new Ministerial Taskforce will explore how we can use all the available levers we have across government and wider society to drive forward the change our children need.