Question follow-through · 15489

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Bolsover constituency have been affected by the two-child benefit cap in each year since 2017.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
21 Nov 2024
Target answer date
28 Nov 2024
Answer
28 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Bolsover constituency have been affected by the two-child benefit cap in each year since 2017.

  2. 28 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Affected Universal Credit households (reporting a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017) in Bolsover constituency, by year YearNumber of UC householdsApril 2018-April 201940April 2020160April 2021280April 2022420April 2023530April 202466...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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