Written Question·Treasury·UIN 89921
Child Benefit: Maladministration
Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 19 November 2025
Question
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Labour — Poole
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been mistakenly recorded as having left the UK and subsequently had their child benefit stopped by HMRC in the last 12 months.
Answer
Dan TomlinsonAs 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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