Cathy Jamieson MP, Labour’s Shadow Treasury Minister, said in response to the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ comments on the Government’s child benefit changes today:

As promised earlier, here's my more detailed supplementary take on today's IFS Green Budget. I've distilled it down into six points, but obviously there's much, much more in the actual document itself. I'd recommend that you read the chapters on public sector pensions and pay, the 50p rate, and child benefit, in particular, if you're so minded — as they're ...

Despite escaping one major ambush, Lord Freud cannot have been looking forward to Amendment 59, moved by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds. A short amendment; Clause 94, page 63, line 25, after “benefits” insert “with the exclusion of child benefit” it addressed issues of child poverty, as the Bishop noted, The Government’s assessment of

Rarely can a government have been so pleased to have been defeated. The Tories are, privately, delighted that the Lords have voted to water down the benefit cap, removing child benefit from it. The longer this attempt to cap benefit for non-working households at £26,000 stays in the news, the better it is for the government. It demonstrates to the electorate that they are trying to do somethi...

The House of Lords backed the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds's amendment to exclude child benefit from the £26,000-a-year cap on benefits per household.

Nearly 700,000 middle class families are to be stripped of child benefit in just over a year's time, according to new estimates.

Middle income earners could be shielded from Coalition cuts to child benefit but the payments will still be stopped for those with the highest salaries, ministers indicated yesterday.

Chancellor insists he will push ahead with controversial plans to axe child benefit for higher rate taxpayers but hinted that the bar could be raised, with only people earning more than £80,000 hit by the cuts.

The cut in child benefit for 1.5m higher-earning families could save the government £2.4bn a year.

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities, responding to David Cameron's comments on child benefit, said: