Question follow-through · 20562
Child Benefit: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help prevent people from fraudulently claiming child benefit.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help prevent people from fraudulently claiming child benefit.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
HMRC estimated the 2023-24 Child Benefit Error and Fraud (E&F) rate to be 1.6% (£200m) of total Child Benefit expenditure.Child Benefit has strong pre-award controls. The emphasis of HMRC’s compliance strategy remains on unreported changes in circumst...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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