Written Question·Treasury·UIN 107489

Child Benefit: Maladministration

Tabled: 21 January 2026

Answered: 26 January 2026

Named Day

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2026 to Question 105764 on Child Benefit: Maladministration, and with reference to the Data Protection Impact Assessment 15489, if she will make an assessment of why issues were

Answer

Dan Tomlinson

Of the 23,794 Child Benefit enquires opened between August and October 2025 to confirm claimant’s residency status, 346 (1.5%) were issued to Northern Ireland claimants.HMRC does not hold a breakdown of the categories of error and fraud for those customer...

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