Question follow-through · 13285

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department holds on the number of people eligible for child maintenance who are not claiming it.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
8 Nov 2024
Target answer date
12 Nov 2024
Answer
13 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department holds on the number of people eligible for child maintenance who are not claiming it.

  2. 12 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    It is estimated that at the financial year ending 2023, there are 2.4 million separated families in Great Britain and 3.8 million children in those families. 41% of these did not have either a statutory arrangement with the Child Maintenance Service or a ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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