Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 April 2016 to Question (32664) what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of child benefit payments paid to non-UK citizens in each year since 2010-11.

The Government has made it clear that UK rates of Child Benefit should not be paid to EU children overseas. The Government paper, ‘The best of both worlds: the United Kingdom’s special status in a reformed European Union, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502291/54284_EU_Series_No1_Web_Accessible.pdf, sets out what was agreed at the February European Council.