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Social Security Benefits: Children

Asked by Siân BerryGreen PartyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 16 July 2025UIN 66055

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the evidentiary requirements of the non-consensual exception to the two-child limit on Article (a) 8 and (b) 14 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

The Department recognises the sensitivities surrounding disclosure that a child was likely born of non-consensual conception and has designed processes that reflect this.

All DWP policies are formulated with regard to legal obligations, including those flowing from the ECHR. The current regulations are considered to be compliant with those obligations.

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