Poverty: Children

(asked on 9th May 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the two-child benefit cap on child poverty.


Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie Portrait
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st May 2024

It is not possible to produce a robust estimate of the effect of the impact of the two-child limit on the number of children in poverty.

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