Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to reduce the time for which a parent or guardian can receive child benefit after a child has left their care.

The Chancellor keeps all aspects of the tax and welfare system under review. In recognition of the importance of Child Benefit and its key role within family budgets in this country, the Prime Minister pledged before the election that this Government will not cut Child Benefit. The Government will however, go into negotiations to ensure that if an EU migrant’s child is living abroad, then they should receive no child benefit for that child.