Question follow-through · 14393
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made and assessment of the potential impact of changes to the two child benefit cap on levels of food bank use.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made and assessment of the potential impact of changes to the two child benefit cap on levels of food bank use.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2026
Answer published
Although no assessment has been made regarding the impact of these changes on food bank use specifically, the reversal of the two child limit in Universal Credit demonstrates this Government’s relentless commitment to tackling child poverty by investing i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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