Child Benefit: Grandparents
Treasury
Written answers and statements, 2 November 2009
Frank Field (Birkenhead, Labour)
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in how many cases child benefit payments are being made to grandparents of the child to which the benefit relates.
Stephen Timms (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; East Ham, Labour)
The information is not available. HM Revenue and Customs does not record the nature of the relationship between the child and the child benefit claimant where the person making the claim is the child's carer and not their parent.