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Social Security Benefits: Expenditure

Asked by Esther McVeyConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 18 June 2026UIN 8996

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average cost to the public purse of households in receipt of benefits made up of (a) 1 husband and 2 wives in a polygamous marriage and 6 children, (b) 1 husband and 2 w

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 9 June 2026 to Question UIN 4348.

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