Poverty: Children

(asked on 16th November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the benefit cap on trends in the level of child poverty.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 22nd November 2022

It is not possible to produce a robust estimate of the effect of the impact of the benefit cap on the number of children in poverty.

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