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Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the remit of the child poverty taskforce includes examining the potential impact of the two-child benefit cap.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
3 Sept 2025
Answer
17 Sept 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the remit of the child poverty taskforce includes examining the potential impact of the two-child benefit cap.

  2. 3 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    This government is committed to tackling child poverty and the Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious Child Poverty Strategy which we will publish in the autumn. We are considering all available levers, including considering social security re...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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