Social Security Benefits: Children

(asked on 29th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ending the two-child limit on the number of children living in poverty; and if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of such a decision.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 5th December 2023

There are no plans to review this policy.

The latest available estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of such a decision was made in 2019, and can be found here.

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