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1717038

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date	09/05/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the two-child benefit cap on child poverty.
tabling member printed	Lord Sikka
uin	HL4544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>It is not possible to produce a robust estimate of the effect of the impact of the two-child limit on the number of children in poverty.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 21/05/2024 14:49:59 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4885 label Biography information for Lord Sikka

1712835

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date	22/04/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of children from single parent households that are in poverty.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	22981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>Our focus is on supporting parents into work as we know that work substantially reduces the chances of poverty. The latest available statistics show that in 2022/23, children in workless lone parent families were nearly 3 times more likely to be in absolute low income after housing costs than children in working lone parent families.</p><p> </p><p>We have consistently set out a sustainable, long-term approach to tackling child poverty based on evidence about the important role of work, particularly where it is full-time. Single parents are better off in work under Universal Credit due to a simple taper system (claimants can keep more of their earnings).</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 01/05/2024 16:15:16 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell