Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the annual cost of increasing Child Benefit by £20 per week.

To ensure that Child Benefit payments retain their value, from April 2023, they will increase in line with September 2022 CPI (10.1%).

The Government publishes details of historic and forecast benefit expenditure, including Child Benefit, on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2022