Question follow-through · 96204
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many additional households will become subject to the Household Benefit Cap following the removal of the two-child limit on the Universal Credit child element.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many additional households will become subject to the Household Benefit Cap following the removal of the two-child limit on the Universal Credit child element.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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8 Dec 2025
Answer published
The requested information is not available.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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