Two-child limit end: How many children would be helped?

Hundreds of thousands of children would be lifted out of poverty if the government scrapped the two-child limit on benefits in its entirety, experts agree. And now, new figures have revealed the numbers of children who could be pulled out of poverty in each devolved nation.

The Women’s Budget Groups across the UK have estimated that in England, 626,022 children would be lifted out of poverty by the end of the decade if the two-child limit on benefits was fully dropped.

Scotland would see 51,036 fewer children in poverty , Wales 54,722 children and Northern Ireland 9,791.

The two-child limit on benefits, which was introduced by the Conservative government eight years ago, means that families cannot get any extra universal credit or child tax credits for their third child or any su