King's Speech amendment on ending the two-child benefit cap

1 release from 1 party, 23 July 2024.

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1. SDLP MPs call for end to two-child benefit cap

   • SDLP
   • 23 July 2024
   • Parliamentary or governmental update
   • Criticises the uk government or a uk minister
   • Contains a proposal

   SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood MP, a signatory to a King's Speech amendment, says the party backs a Westminster commitment to end the two-child benefit cap, which it argues has deepened child poverty and hit Northern Ireland families hard.

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• Alliance: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• DUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Sinn Féin: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• TUV: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
• Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.

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