Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 26 July 2024.
Ian Lavery
Labour, Blyth and Ashington
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Blyth and Ashington constituency are impacted by the two child benefit cap.
Stephen Timms
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
The number of Universal Credit households affected by the policy to provide support to a maximum of 2 children, in Blyth and Ashington in April 2024 was 770.
The equivalent figure for Child Tax Credits is not held by this department as it is administered by HM Revenue & Customs.
Notes:
1. The new 2024 Parliamentary Constituencies are derived by using postcode lookup data against the claimant address however, this is only available for England and Wales and is not present for all households in this data source.
2. 2024 Parliamentary Constituencies are approximate and therefore figures may not match exactly with the previous 2019 Parliamentary Constituencies they correspond to.
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