Question follow-through · 85514
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to remove the two-child benefit cap.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
- Social Security Benefits: Children · 10 Nov 2025
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to remove the two-child benefit cap.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 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 to give every child the best start in life...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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