Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 74229

Poverty: Children

Tabled: 2 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Kim Johnson

LabourLiverpool 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 Johnson
This 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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