Question follow-through · 99616
Social Security Benefits: Northern Ireland
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she plans to take to enable the Northern Ireland Executive to retain monies received from identifying benefit fraud; and whether there is any blockage to this happening.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she plans to take to enable the Northern Ireland Executive to retain monies received from identifying benefit fraud; and whether there is any blockage to this happening.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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17 Dec 2025
Answer published
Benefit payments in Northern Ireland are a devolved matter.To make sure support goes to those who truly need it, the UK Government will work with the Northern Ireland Executive over the coming months on ways to tackle welfare fraud and error in Northern I...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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