Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 44718

Poverty: Children

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 28 April 2025

Question

Luke Taylor

Liberal DemocratSutton and Cheam

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty strategy will include the removal of the (a) two-child limit and (b) benefit cap.

Answer

Alison McGovern
The Child Poverty Taskforce is continuing its urgent work and is exploring all available levers, including considering social security reforms, to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty. Our focus is on bringin...

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