Question follow-through · 13633
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to abolish all Child Maintenance Service for parents with care who are victim-survivors of domestic abuse.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2024 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to abolish all Child Maintenance Service for parents with care who are victim-survivors of domestic abuse.
13 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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13 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Department has recently concluded a public consultation on policy changes. This included proposals to remove the Direct Pay service (where parents pay each other directly) and managing all CMS cases in one service to allow the CMS to tackle non-compli...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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