- Child Poverty
- The following extract is from Work and Pensions questions on 8 December 2025.
- It took the Government a year and a half to confirm that they were going to scrap the two-child benefit cap. What estimate has the Minister made of the number of children who, during that time, were unnecessarily kept in poverty because of it?
- …The statistic the hon. Gentleman perhaps wants me to give is that I understand 100 children a week were pushed into child poverty through the two-child limit that the previous Government introduced in 2017.[Official Report, 8 December 2025; Vol. 777, c. 9.]Written correction submitted by the Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham (Dame Diana Johnson):
- …The statistic the hon. Gentleman perhaps wants me to give is that I understand 100 children a day were pushed into child poverty through the two-child limit that the previous Government introduced in 2017.