Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to end the policy of limiting the payment of additional child elements of universal credit to the first two children in a household; how many (a) households and (b) children are affected by the two-child limit; for what reasons his Department implements this policy; if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of this policy on levels of child poverty; and if he will make a statement.

Latest statistics related to the policy published in July 2022 and can be accessed at Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit claimants: statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of 2 children, April 2022

There are no plans to end this policy. The policy was announced in 2015 as part of a package of measures to deliver a more sustainable welfare system.​