United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 89922
Child Benefit: Maladministration
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11 November 2025
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19 November 2025 · Answer
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19 November 2025
Summary
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential reasons for recent trends in the levels of people that have been mistakenly recorded as having left the UK and subsequently had their child benefit stopped by HMRC.
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11 November 2025
Written question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential reasons for recent trends in the levels of people that have been mistakenly recorded as having left the UK and subsequently had their child benefit stopped by HMRC.
Source: Commons
19 November 2025
Answer
As 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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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-11-11/89922
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1851228
- uk · wq-1851228 · source updated 19 November 2025