Question follow-through · 25010
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to her Department of not claiming back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year since the original payment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to her Department of not claiming back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year since the original payment.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jan 2025
Answer published
The estimated cost of not claiming back Child Benefit payments from parents who have lost a child in the year since the payment was made is not readily available and could only be produced at disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Child Benefit
23 Jan 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department's policy is on claiming back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year after the upfront payment.
Child Benefit
23 Jan 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse would be to not claim back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year after the upfront payment.