Child Trust Fund

(asked on 15th December 2025) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Lucy Rigby Portrait
Lucy Rigby
Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 18th December 2025

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
(thousands)

Average Market Value (£)

Total Market Value (£ Million)

Matured This Year (Continuing)

295

2,039

602

Matured Previously (Continuing)

463

1,942

899

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