Question follow-through · 76257

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the two child benefit cap on people by ethnicity.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
15 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the two child benefit cap on people by ethnicity.

  2. 15 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Statistics about the policy that limits support in Universal Credit to a maximum of two children are published annually. The latest statistics, published in July 2025, include breakdowns by geography and ethnicity, and are available here:Universal Credit ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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