Question follow-through · 64322
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to remove the two-child benefit cap as part of the Tackling Child Poverty strategy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to remove the two-child benefit cap as part of the Tackling Child Poverty strategy.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. The Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious Child Poverty Strategy which we will publish in the autumn. We are considering all available ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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