Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 75703
Social Security Benefits: Children
Tabled: 8 September 2025
Answered: 16 September 2025
Question
Antonia Bance
Labour — Tipton and Wednesbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of abolishing the two-child limit policy for (a) two-earner couple households and (b) two-earner couple households in which both earners are in
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsNo such estimate has been made. 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.