Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 95979

Social Security Benefits

Tabled: 1 December 2025
Answered: 4 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Neil O'Brien

ConservativeHarborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of additional households that would become subject to the Household Benefit Cap following the removal of the two-child limit on the Universal Credit C

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.