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Social Security Benefits: Children

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 1795, tabled on 25 July 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential health impact of the two-child benefit cap on children's (a) mental and (b) physical health.

Answered on

30 July 2024

No formal assessment has been made.

We recognise the wide-ranging causes of child poverty, and we 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.

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