Question follow-through · 1032
Social Security Benefits: Children
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 30 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2024
Question tabled
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.
24 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jul 2024
Answer published
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.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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