Challenging HMRC’s Decision on Unclaimed Child Trust Funds

To: informationrightsunit@hmrc.gov.uk
Subject: Request for Internal Review – FOI2025/151659

Date: 3rd October 2025

Dear HMRC Information Rights Unit,

I am writing to request an internal review on the public record of your response to my Freedom of Information request (reference FOI2025/151659) 3rd September 2025 concerning unclaimed Child Trust Funds (CTFs).

Your response of 3rd October 2025 invoked Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (cost of compliance). However, I must respectfully challenge this decision on both public interest and overriding legal grounds.

I have already informed you that there is an international warrant of arrest for my daughter, who is also required to appear in court in respect of her Child Trust Fund (CTF). You have previously confirmed that it is your responsibility under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to provide a response within 20 working days. However, you did not respond until Monday, 3rd October 2025 at 1:23 PM , which exceeds the statutory time limit. Therefore, your position that an internal review cannot be processed is void.

Even Stuart Peters of the MET and Police can be heard to state that he is aware of child trafficking so you cannot ignore this https://themarkattwoodshow.com/title/two-ex-policemen-discuss-gary-watermans-fraud-claims-8th-june-2024/

As a father and researcher, author i have been writing for 14 years about the person that your UK system in the uk confused me with another of the same name and is still doing this illegally on Google Formal Complaint – Case 9-3558000039616 / Identity Theft & Repeated Post Rejections. Your UK Social Worker said “I would never work agaian” she was obviously not joking as this is at her hands.

Identity Misuse
I repeat and place on record: I am Martin P. Newbold, author based in Hastings. I am not “Martin Newbold of Polegate”, nor am I associated with that person in any way. My identity has been misused, and I am currently represented by a leading firm of solicitors in an active case concerning identity theft and GDPR misuse. This has now been reported to acting Solicitors.

My daughter, Emily Newbold, who disappeared in 2010.

Over the past decade, I’ve discovered evidence suggesting that Emily’s disappearance may be part of a far wider pattern involving around 430,000 missing children and young people whose UK government Child Trust Funds (CTFs) remain unclaimed. These accounts were automatically created for every child born between 2002 and 2011, yet government data shows that hundreds of thousands have never been claimed. I should point out that these figures are very similar to the detail i supplied the court via an affidavit only to be informed the appeal number i have which was given to me by Lord Thomas was void and not a genuine number that could be filed against when the data contained information i from a NSPCC Briefing document to the government.

The alarming part is that these individuals do not appear to be living in the UK or Ireland. They are absent from health, education, and tax records. My daughter, Emily, is the only individual among this missing cohort whose name I personally know. The rest are identified only as statistical entries in official data.

Based on years of research and cross-referencing with international records, I believe this disappearance pattern may be linked to the same trafficking and data networks associated with Jeffrey Epstein and his global operations. There are common indicators in the timing, the financial concealment mechanisms, and the institutional silence that followed.

You should note

Prime Minister Tony Blair’s visit to Washington, D.C. on 10–12 April 1996 (itineraries, schedules, visitor logs, briefings, correspondence, reports); and
UK education-officer placements/fellowships in 1995–1997 (including any records referencing Matthew Dunkley and/or Theresa Makey), and any cross-government communications or material arising from such fellowships; and
Cross-references between UK and US records (cables, memos, or communications) connected to the April 1996 visit.
Discussions with Bill linton and Blair have been removed from the public record in respect to the creation of Social Charter which is now believed to be responsible for trafficking children through the epstein network as no other data in regard to these children can be located just like the children and my daughter.
The alarming part is that these individuals do not appear to be living in the UK or Ireland. They are absent from health, education, and tax records. My daughter, Emily, is the only individual among this missing cohort whose name I personally know. The rest are identified only as statistical entries in official data.

It has now come to my attention that there may exist a potential mechanism of modern slavery enabling the movement of young women and potentially children from Northern Ireland through what appears to be a network connected to the Epstein abduction routes. When I telephoned the Modern Slavery Helpline, I was informed that it is a charity and cannot conduct investigations.

Clearly, when Sky News reporter Beth Rigby asked the Prime Minister about Peter Mandelson at the meeting with Donald Trump in 2025, he publicly stated that he did not support paedophilia or modern slavery. Yet, his own safeguarding mechanisms have historically misidentified people of the same name in my daughter’s case, who are not the same identity, and appear to be negligent in their duty to protect children and young women.

The questions concerning the 430,000 unaccounted-for Child Trust Funds as stated by the Cabinet office and UK Government are consistent with the data provided on affidavit served on Hastings Court and shared with the police, before this government’s exposure. Your department was also informed of this through an NSPCC briefing document, which appears to have been ignored, with no protocol enacted in response.

The Cabinet Office has been aware of this abduction issue for many years, and there still appears to be no protocol to address it. As have the police including Stuart Peters MET : https://themarkattwoodshow.com/title/two-ex-policemen-discuss-gary-watermans-fraud-claims-8th-june-2024/

Where is my daughter, Emily?

Please conduct an Internal Review of FOI2025/14063.

In addition, please escalate and route this safeguarding note to the appropriate government unit(s) (including safeguarding, policing, or modern slavery coordination teams) and acknowledge routing. This context underscores the strong public interest in the timely and thorough handling of this FOI request.

1. Urgent Context: International Arrest Warrant

I have already informed the Cabinet Office, the Department of Health (Northern Ireland), and other authorities that there is an international arrest warrant in place in relation to my missing daughter, Emily Cathryn Newbold Smith, whose details are registered in NHS records (648 343 9091). She is one of the 430,000 unclaimed Child Trust Fund account holders identified in official government statistics over a ten-year period.

Any administrative or legal obstruction to disclosing information about unclaimed CTFs, particularly those connected to vulnerable or missing young people, may therefore constitute a breach of obligations associated with this warrant, including potential obstruction of justice and interference with safeguarding duties under UK and international law.

This matter outweighs the procedural limits of the FOIA and falls under the overriding public interest in locating missing persons and preventing further harm.

2. Narrowed and Specific Request

To bring the request within reasonable scope and avoid the cited cost threshold, I am willing to narrow my original questions to the following:

a. Current policies or internal guidance (2023–2025) on tracing or contacting unclaimed CTF account holders, including procedures when they cannot be located or are believed to be missing.

b. Any correspondence or internal memorandum (2019–2025) between HMRC, HM Treasury, or the Department for Education referring to safeguarding, looked-after children, or missing persons in relation to unclaimed or dormant CTFs.

These are precise and limited parameters that should not require retrieval of broad or historical data sets.

3. Public and Legal Interest

The National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee have both confirmed the scale of the unclaimed CTF problem—approximately 430,000 young people untraceable as of April 2025. Where any of these individuals may also be subject to safeguarding concerns or open police warrants, as in my daughter’s case, the public interest in disclosure becomes overriding.

A continued refusal or delay could amount to a failure to assist an active international investigation. Under Section 16 FOIA and the Section 45 Code of Practice, HMRC has a duty to advise and assist in good faith where disclosure may assist in the location or protection of missing persons.

4. Requested Review Outcome

I therefore request that your internal review:

Reconsider the Section 12(1) exemption in light of the narrowed and urgent parameters above;
Identify and release any relevant documents or operational guidance that exist in current circulation;
Confirm whether HMRC has been contacted by, or has contacted, any UK or international agencies regarding unclaimed CTF accounts associated with missing or at-risk individuals.

Given the live safeguarding and legal implications, I ask that this review be handled expeditiously and copied to HM Treasury’s Freedom of Information team for awareness.

Yours faithfully,

Martin Newbold

RESPONSE FROM HMRC. Date Received: 03 October 2025
Our ref: FOI2025/151659

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Challenging HMRC’s Decision on Unclaimed Child Trust Funds