Child Benefit
Commons · Question 98955 · Tabled 10 Dec 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the written answer of 9 December 25 to question 96953 on Child Benefit, how many of the 23,500 compliance enquiries (i) were confirmed to be eligible, (ii) were found to have been incorrectly receiving t
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 16 Dec 2025
HMRC has now completed its review of Child Benefit compliance cases where a PAYE check had not been undertaken. As of 30 November 2025, out of the 23,794 cases opened between August and October 2025, 14,994 Child Benefit customers have been confirmed to b...