| Heading: |
Child Benefit |
| Question ID: |
1759748 |
| UIN: |
27131 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1524 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dame Meg Hillier
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| Asking Member handle: |
Meg_HillierMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@Meg_HillierMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of ending the two child benefit cap. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
No estimates have been published. While we cannot currently commit to changing the two child policy, tackling child poverty is at the heart of the Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and improve the life chances of every child. This... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |