We recognise that child poverty trebled under the last Government, and welcome the Labour Government setting up the Child Poverty Taskforce to address this issue, we further recognise that many interventions will be needed to address the causes of child poverty and how this is mitigated, including considering the impact of the Two Child Benefit Cap which results in parents of families with three or more children born after April 2017 only being able to claim benefit for the first two children, unless they prove that further children have been conceived by rape; and further that this is a major reason for child poverty, causing larger families hardship, and that this has impacted on 1.6m children since its introduction.

The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Government to consider the impact of the two-child benefit cap and other measures in developing a strategy to end child poverty through the Child Poverty Taskforce.