| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Children |
| Question ID: |
1820790 |
| UIN: |
66055 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-08 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5314 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Siân Berry
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| Asking Member handle: |
sianberry
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@sianberry
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the evidentiary requirements of the non-consensual exception to the two-child limit on Article (a) 8 and (b) 14 of the Human Rights Act 1998. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-16 |
| 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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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
The Department recognises the sensitivities surrounding disclosure that a child was likely born of non-consensual conception and has designed processes that reflect this. All DWP policies are formulated with regard to legal obligations, including those fl... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |