Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 65409

Social Security Benefits: Children

Tabled: 7 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025

Question

Siân Berry

Green PartyBrighton Pavilion

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the list of professionals who have been given approved third-party status for the purpose of certifying claims under the non-consensual conception excepti

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
There are currently no plans to make these assessments. The non-consensual exception looks to protect UC child element entitlement for those children conceived non-consensually. The Department recognises the sensitivities surrounding disclosure that a chi...

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