Social Security Benefits: Children

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

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Photo of Mary Foy Mary Foy Labour, City of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential health impact of the two-child benefit cap on children's (a) mental and (b) physical health.

Photo of Stephen Timms Stephen Timms The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

No formal assessment has been made.

We recognise the wide-ranging causes of child poverty, and we 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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