Question follow-through · 98021
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) households, and (b) children, will not receive an overall increase in benefit support from the abolition of the two-child benefit cap from April 2026 due to being subject to the overall ben
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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- Pensioners: Social Security Benefits · 23 Feb 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) households, and (b) children, will not receive an overall increase in benefit support from the abolition of the two-child benefit cap from April 2026 due to being subject to the overall ben
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2025
Answer published
The requested information is not available.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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