Question follow-through · 89704

Child Benefit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she expects HMRC to complete its review of suspended child benefit claims.

answeredTreasury

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Treasury
Tabled
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
13 Nov 2025
Answer
19 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she expects HMRC to complete its review of suspended child benefit claims.

  2. 13 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    As part of its ongoing efforts to reduce error and fraud in the Child Benefit system, HMRC undertook a pilot last year using international travel data. This pilot saw thousands of people who had left the UK but carried on claiming Child Benefit removed fr...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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