Family-strengthening Policies Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Family-strengthening Policies

Lord Hylton Excerpts
Monday 10th October 2022

(1 year, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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The noble Baroness makes a very good point, and that is where our joint working with the Department for Health and Social Care, for example, is particularly important.

Lord Hylton Portrait Lord Hylton (CB)
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My Lords, what plans do the Government have two remove, or at least phase out, the two-child cap on welfare benefit? Would that not be a great help to larger families?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I fear that I shall have to defer to my colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions but, as I mentioned earlier, the Government are committed to supporting the most vulnerable families in this country and have committed £37 billion to that end.