Question follow-through · 17412
Child Maintenance Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by Gingerbread entitled Fix the CMS, published on 25 November 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) assigning (i) dedicated and (ii) named case
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by Gingerbread entitled Fix the CMS, published on 25 November 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) assigning (i) dedicated and (ii) named case
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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9 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) continues to engage regularly with stakeholders as we consider CMS reform. We are currently considering the recommendations and our response to the Gingerbread report ‘Fix the CMS’.The CMS Service Modernisation Programm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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