Question follow-through · 4090
Child Maintenance Service: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about the Child Maintenance Service were investigated by the Independent Case Examiner (a) overall, (b) by the receiving parent and (c) by the paying parent in each of the last five
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about the Child Maintenance Service were investigated by the Independent Case Examiner (a) overall, (b) by the receiving parent and (c) by the paying parent in each of the last five
5 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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11 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Independent Case Examiner’s office investigated 2,142 Child Maintenance Service (CMS) cases over the last 5 complete reporting years, broken down as follows: Reporting YearCMS Investigations2019/201882020/212672021/223962022/235072023/24784 The Indepe...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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