Question follow-through · 82525
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she is considering changing the child benefit taper system to reflect household rather than individual income.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she is considering changing the child benefit taper system to reflect household rather than individual income.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government understands the concerns that have been raised about basing the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) on individual rather than household incomes. However, basing the charge on household rather than individual incomes would come at a sig...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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