Question follow-through · 65764
High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of scrapping the High Income Child Benefit Charge.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of scrapping the High Income Child Benefit Charge.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
While the government understands the concerns that have been raised about the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC), it is currently the best way to manage Child Benefit expenditure. By withdrawing Child Benefit from high-income families, the HICBC hel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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