Social Security Benefits: Children

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 30 July 2024.

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Photo of Stephen Flynn Stephen Flynn SNP Westminster Leader

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an estimate of the potential impact of removing the two-child benefit cap on the number of children in poverty.

Photo of Alison McGovern Alison McGovern The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

Recognising the wide-ranging causes of child poverty, our new Ministerial Taskforce will explore how we can use all the available levers we have across government and wider society to drive forward the change our children need.

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