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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- 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
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.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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