Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to HM Revenue and Custom's publication Statistics on recently arrived non-UK EEA nationals subject to income tax and National Insurance contributions or receiving HMRC administered benefits of May 2016, how many child benefit claims of what amount were made by (a) non-UK EEA nationals and (b) recently arrived non-UK EEA nationals in each of the last three years.

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/publications/the-best-of-both-worlds-the-united-kingdoms-special-status-in-a-reformed-european-union, sets out what was agreed at the February European council.