Question follow-through · 37016
Child Benefit: Inflation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to increase the level of child benefit in line with inflation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to increase the level of child benefit in line with inflation.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
To ensure that Child Benefit retains its value, the Government will increase Child Benefit in line with the consumer prices index for the year to September 2024, which is 1.7%. This means that, from 7 April 2025, the Child Benefit rate for the eldest chil...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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