Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 83485

Social Security Benefits: Children

Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 24 October 2025

Question

Edward Morello

Liberal DemocratWest Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will remove the two-child benefit cap in the Autumn Budget.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Government is committed to tackling child poverty. The Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious Child Poverty Strategy which we will publish in the autumn. Commitments made at the 2025 spending review, and since then, are the latest steps in...

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