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Social Security Benefits: Children

Asked by Siân BerryGreen PartyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 17 July 2025UIN 66822

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of successful claims under the non-consensual conception exception to the two-child limit for (a) Universal Credit, (b) working-age Housing Benefit and (c) Child Benefit wer

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

The information requested is not held centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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