Written questions

Child Benefit: Maladministration

Commons · Question 107489 · Tabled 21 Jan 2026 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 26 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by 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

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 26 Jan 2026

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...