Question follow-through · 18712
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review the two child benefit cap.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review the two child benefit cap.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Child Poverty Taskforce is exploring how we can harness all available levers to reduce child poverty before publishing a strategy in Spring 2025.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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