Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the (a) number of Child Trust Fund accounts that remain unclaimed and (b) value of funds held in those unclaimed Child Trust Fund accounts.
The number of Child Trust Funds that have matured and have not been claimed or transferred to an ISA, and the value of funds held in these accounts, can be found in the Child Trust Fund tables of the Annual Savings Statistics.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-savings-statistics-2025
Table 1a: Market Value of CTFs as of 5 April 2025 | Number of accounts | Average Market Value (£) | Total Market Value (£ Million) |
Matured This Year (Continuing) | 295 | 2,039 | 602 |
Matured Previously (Continuing) | 463 | 1,942 | 899 |