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Child Benefit: Slough

Asked by Mr Tanmanjeet Singh DhesiLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 9 December 2024UIN 17591

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Slough constituency have been affected by the two-child benefit cap in each year since 2017.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

The number of Universal Credit households affected by the two-child limit in the Slough parliamentary constituency in each year since 2019 is as follows.

Month/Year

Households affected by the two-child policy

April 2019

50

April 2020

290

April 2021

560

April 2022

780

April 2023

1,000

April 2024

1,400

Notes:

  1. This data includes all households with a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017. This includes households with children with exceptions, so it does not match published figures for the number of households not receiving an amount of child element due to the policy.
  2. Data is not available for earlier years. Figures are rounded as appropriate.
  3. Because the figures are from the latest available data, these figures may not be fully consistent with published statistics.
  4. These figures do not include Child Tax Credit (CTC) and households may have been affected while receiving CTC.

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