Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 74229
Poverty: Children
Tabled: 2 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025
Named DayQuestion
Kim Johnson
Labour — Liverpool Riverside
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing the two-child benefit cap on children in poverty.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThis government is committed to tackling child poverty and the Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious Child Poverty Strategy which we will publish in the autumn. We are considering all available levers, including considering social security re...
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