Question follow-through · 109453

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of families subject to the household benefit cap are blended families.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
2 Feb 2026
Answer
6 Feb 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of families subject to the household benefit cap are blended families.

  2. 2 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The information requested is not held centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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