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
Shadow Minister (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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