How Cheshire MPs voted as plan to scrap two child benefit cap backed
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MPs overwhelmingly voted to scrap the two child benefit cap last night - and you can find out how yours voted using our interactive tool.
The bill to remove the two child limit passed its second reading by 354 votes. A total of 458 voted in favour of scrapping the cap, while 104 voted against.
Among those voting for the scrap were Reform UK’s latest recruits, Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, who allegedly did so by mistake, reports the Mirror. Five other Reform UK MPs voted against the bill, but their leader Nigel Farage had no vote recorded for him.
No Labour MPs rebelled against the government’s bill, while all Conservative MPs either voted against it or didn’t vote.
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If the bill passes, the change will allow families to receive the child element of UC for all their children, regardless of family size. At present, parents can only claim the child element for their first two children.
The limit was introduced by the Conservative Government in 2017, and the Labour government had been under pressure to scrap it since coming into power in July 2024. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her intention to scrap the cap in her Autumn budget.
Reeves said her party did "not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children". An estimated 350,000 children could be lifted out of poverty as a result of lifting the cap, according to research by the End Child Poverty Coalition.
The two-child benefit limit affected a record high of 469,780 households across Great Britain in the year to April 2025, according to figures from the Department of Work and Pensions. The majority of those households (59%) were in work, and were home to a total of 1.7 million children.