Question follow-through · 4853

Child Maintenance Service: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in protecting victims of domestic abuse when using their service.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 9 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 11 Sept 2024
Answer: 17 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in protecting victims of domestic abuse when using their service.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Department is assessing how it can provide statistics on domestic abuse now the application fee exemption statistics are no longer published. The Department's Chief Statistician will oversee the development of these statistics to make sure they meet t...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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