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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 27131, tabled on 29 January 2025

Question

Dame Meg Hillier
Labour
Hackney South and Shoreditch
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of ending the two child benefit cap.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Labour
East Ham
Commons

Answered on

3 February 2025

No estimates have been published.

While we cannot currently commit to changing the two child policy, tackling child poverty is at the heart of the Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and improve the life chances of every child. This is why the Child Poverty Taskforce will look at all available levers to reduce child poverty, including social security reforms, before publishing a strategy.

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