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Social Security Benefits: Children

Asked by Antonia BanceLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 16 September 2025UIN 75703

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of abolishing the two-child limit policy for (a) two-earner couple households and (b) two-earner couple households in which both earners are in 

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

No such estimate has been made. This government is committed to tackling child poverty and the Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious Child Poverty Strategy which we will publish in the autumn.

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