Written questions

Child Benefit

Commons · Question 92881 · Tabled 19 Nov 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 25 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 89705 on Child Benefit, how many of the 23,500 enquiries excluded from the PAYE check were found to be eligible for reinstatement after the checks were complete

Answer

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 25 Nov 2025

HMRC’s Chief Executive wrote to the Treasury Select Committee on 14 November 2025 about this matter including the corrective action that HMRC is taking. This letter was subsequently published by the Committee on 18 November 2025. There are no plans to pub...