Speeches

Tom Brake – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Brake on 2015-11-03.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the welfare budget was spent on child benefit in 2014-15.

Damian Hinds

The latest available estimates of Child Benefit expenditure in 2014-15 can be found in Table 4.19 of the publication ‘Economic and fiscal outlook – July 2015’ available here: http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-july-2015/