Work and Pensions

Thursday 11th December 2025 Written Corrections

Child Poverty

The following extract is from Work and Pensions questions on 8 December 2025.

[Mr Joshua Reynolds (Maidenhead) (LD)]

It took the Government a year and a half to confirm that they were going to scrap the two-child benefit cap. What estimate has the Minister made of the number of children who, during that time, were unnecessarily kept in poverty because of it?

[Dame Diana Johnson]

…The statistic the hon. Gentleman perhaps wants me to give is that I understand 100 children a week were pushed into child poverty through the two-child limit that the previous Government introduced in 2017.

[Official Report, 8 December 2025; Vol. 777, c. 9.]

Written correction submitted by the Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham (Dame Diana Johnson):

[Dame Diana Johnson]

…The statistic the hon. Gentleman perhaps wants me to give is that I understand 100 children a day were pushed into child poverty through the two-child limit that the previous Government introduced in 2017.