Question follow-through · 11059
National Insurance Credits
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing parents to retrospectively claim National Insurance credits if they were eligible for child benefit but did not claim them.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing parents to retrospectively claim National Insurance credits if they were eligible for child benefit but did not claim them.
30 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government keeps all tax policy under review.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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