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Call Kaye: 26/10/2012

26/10/2012

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Kaye asks whether there should be a welfare cap for families with more than two children.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has proposed cutting welfare benefits for families with more than two children. Kaye Adams asks whether you agree.

Iain Duncan Smith has suggested limiting benefits to the children of the unemployed as he pledged to end the "madness" of taxpayers housing large families in expensive homes. The Work and Pensions Secretary has proped capping welfare benefits for those who have more than two children. Kaye Adams asks what you think.

This week the All Party Parliamentary Group on women's sport reflected on the successes of some of the country's top female athletes including Katherine Grainger, Jessica Ennis, Ellie Simmonds, Heather Stanning and Victoria Pendleton. After their sporting achievements over the summer and talk of becoming positive role models for the nation's young women, why is it that so many girls are failing to take up sport. Is the thought of getting all sweaty and embarrassing themselves in front of the boys putting them off, is the scarcity of women's sports coverage in the media to blame...or just plain old lack of interest? If the afterglow of London 2012 can't motivate them, then how can we encourage girls to embrace sport?

And mortgages. A ground-breaking Financial Services Authority investigation into Britain's home loan market has revealed that almost half of borrowers who have taken out a loan in the past seven years are "mortgage prisoners", unable to remortgage for a better deal or move house. Kaye gets advice from a mortgage expert and hears how exactly lenders have been tightening their belts.

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