Question follow-through · 97043
Housing Benefit and Pension Credit: Polygamy
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households where (a) Pension Credit and (b) Housing Benefit is claimed receive additional consideration due to there being a polygamous marriage.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2026 · 35 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households where (a) Pension Credit and (b) Housing Benefit is claimed receive additional consideration due to there being a polygamous marriage.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2026
Answer published
Since 1988 rules have been in place under successive governments which limit access to benefits for people in polygamous marriages to those who were married in a country which allows such marriages. Any polygamous relationship formed in the United Kingdom...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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