Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 94999

Social Security Benefits

Tabled: 26 November 2025

Answered: 3 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Ann Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of removing the benefit cap alongside the removal of the two child cap announced in the Budget Statement on 26 November 2025.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

No assessment has been made The benefit cap aims to incentivise work as, where possible, it is in the best interest of children to be in working households. Being in work substantially reduces the chance of poverty: the poverty rate of children living in ...

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