Social Security Benefits: Children
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The Child Poverty Strategy will set out the decisive action this Government is taking to tackle child poverty and make sure children are given the best start in life.
The commitments we’ve made at the 2025 spending review and beyond are just the latest step of our Plan for Change to put extra pounds in people’s pockets – a downpayment on our Child Poverty Strategy, building on our expansion of free breakfast clubs, our national minimum wage boost and our reduction in the cap on Universal Credit deductions through the Fair Repayment Rate.
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