Question follow-through · 19317
Child Trust Fund
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many mature Child Trust Fund accounts that were opened by HM Revenue and Customs remain unclaimed, and what the estimated total value is of those accounts.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2026 · 51 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many mature Child Trust Fund accounts that were opened by HM Revenue and Customs remain unclaimed, and what the estimated total value is of those accounts.
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises it is vital to step up efforts to reunite young people with their unclaimed matured Child Trust Funds (CTFs), regardless of whether the account was opened by HMRC or by a parent. Around three million accounts have now matured, of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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