Question follow-through · 25756
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the household benefit cap on families with children living in poverty.
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
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the household benefit cap on families with children living in poverty.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
No assessment has been made. Delivering our manifesto commitment to tackle child poverty is an urgent priority for this Government, and the Ministerial Taskforce is continuing its urgent work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy. Families can receive ben...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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