Question follow-through · 13950
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that all parents receive the correct amount of child maintenance payment on time.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that all parents receive the correct amount of child maintenance payment on time.
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2024
Answer published
A principle of child maintenance is to increase levels of cooperation between separated parents and encourage parents to meet their responsibilities to provide their children with financial support. Where a family-based child maintenance arrangement is no...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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