Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 71438
Social Security Benefits: Poverty
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 4 September 2025
Question
Nadia Whittome
Labour — Nottingham East
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of (a) the potential impact of the benefit cap on poverty rates among larger families and (b) the potential merits of its abolition.
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsNo assessment has been made. This government is committed to tackling child poverty and the Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in autumn, that will deliver fully funded measures to tackle the structural and r...
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