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Written question asked by Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Conservative) on Friday, 6 February 2026, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Friday, 20 February 2026. It was answered by Lord Livermore (Labour) on Friday, 20 February 2026 on behalf of the Treasury.


Child Benefit: Migrants

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many individuals are currently claiming child benefits due to an exemption to no recourse to public funds status.

Answer

The information required to inform an estimate is not held in a readily available form. Producing an estimate would require detailed manual examination of a very large number of individual Child Benefit claims, which could only be done at disproportionate cost.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL14369
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Child benefit Migrants
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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