Question follow-through · 98955
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the written answer of 9 December 25 to question 96953 on Child Benefit, how many of the 23,500 compliance enquiries (i) were confirmed to be eligible, (ii) were found to have been incorrectly receiving t
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the written answer of 9 December 25 to question 96953 on Child Benefit, how many of the 23,500 compliance enquiries (i) were confirmed to be eligible, (ii) were found to have been incorrectly receiving t
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2025
Answer published
HMRC has now completed its review of Child Benefit compliance cases where a PAYE check had not been undertaken. As of 30 November 2025, out of the 23,794 cases opened between August and October 2025, 14,994 Child Benefit customers have been confirmed to b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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