Question follow-through · 83485
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will remove the two-child benefit cap in the Autumn Budget.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will remove the two-child benefit cap in the Autumn Budget.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling child poverty. The Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious Child Poverty Strategy which we will publish in the autumn. Commitments made at the 2025 spending review, and since then, are the latest steps in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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