Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 102088
Poverty: Children
Tabled: 2 January 2026
Answered: 12 January 2026
Question
Euan Stainbank
Labour — Falkirk
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of UK Government measures to reduce child poverty on children in Scotland; and how he is working with the Scottish Government to complement devolved
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonWe estimate that removing the two-child limit alongside other measures in the Child Poverty Strategy, published on 5 December, will lift 550,000 children out of poverty across the whole of the UK, leading to the largest expected reduction in child poverty...
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