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Sunak urged to drop two-child benefit cap to lift thousands out of poverty

Rishi Sunak has been urged to drop “unspeakably cruel” policies to lift half a million children out of poverty. SNP MP Kirsten Oswald has urged the Prime Minister to U-turn on his decision to back the two-child limit and benefit cap policies set by ...

25 Dec 2022 at 00:01

Keeping two-child cap on benefits is a ‘massive betrayal’, Yousaf tells Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer’s refusal to scrap the two-child cap on benefits if Labour wins the next general election has been branded a “massive betrayal” by the Scottish First Minister. Humza Yousaf hit out at Sir Keir after he said the policy will remain ...

20 Jul 2023 at 09:34

Labour suspends MPs who defied Government in two-child benefit cap vote

Sir Keir Starmer has stripped seven MPs of the Labour whip after they rebelled against the Government by backing a motion to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, ex-business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, ...

23 Jul 2024 at 22:05

SNP demands two-child cap be scrapped ‘immediately’

The SNP has tabled an amendment calling for the two-child cap to be axed, with the party’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn branding a new child poverty taskforce set up by the Labour government as a “cynical attempt to kick the issue into ...

18 Jul 2024 at 00:01

Extra Budget cash for Scotland will not see two-child cap axed, Robison suggests

Extra cash coming to Scotland as a result of Rachel Reeves’s Budget will not be used to scrap the two-child limit on some benefits or end means-testing for winter fuel payments, Holyrood’s Finance Secretary has suggested. The Scottish ...

31 Oct 2024 at 10:02

Scotland

Two-child cap is ‘cancelling Christmas for vulnerable children’, says SNP

The two-child benefit cap is effectively “cancelling Christmas for Scotland’s most vulnerable children”, the SNP has said. The party highlighted the impact of the cap in the run-up to Christmas, accusing the UK Government of a ...

22 Dec 2024 at 00:01

Scotland

EIS calls for immediate mitigation of two-child cap in Scotland

Ministers are facing calls to speed up plans to effectively scrap the two-child cap on some benefits in Scotland – with teachers’ leaders demanding the “immediate mitigation” of the policy. The EIS said that as it stands, ...

29 Dec 2024 at 00:01

Scotland

Minister says ‘budgetary decisions’ required to lift two-child benefit cap

Budgetary decisions will need to be made to pay for the Scottish Government’s scrapping of the two-child benefit cap, a minister has said. However Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville declined to be drawn ...

09 Jan 2025 at 11:39

Two-child cap not the only lever we have to tackle poverty, says Rayner

There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it. During a visit to ...

09 Jan 2025 at 19:58

Scotland

SNP demands end of ‘unnecessary suffering’ caused by two-child benefit cap

The SNP has called for “unnecessary suffering” caused by the two-child benefit cap to end seven years on from its introduction. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been urged to reflect on the damage critics say ...

06 Apr 2024 at 00:01

SNP action to tackle child poverty branded ‘not good enough’ by Gordon Brown

The SNP’s record in Government on child poverty is “not good enough”, former prime minister Gordon Brown has said. Since leaving office in 2010, Mr Brown has campaigned against poverty and has now pit ...

02 Jul 2024 at 14:35

Four-nation summit needed now to tackle child poverty, says Flynn

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to call for a four-nation summit on tackling child poverty this summer. Mr Flynn welcomed news the UK Government ...

20 Jul 2024 at 00:01

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